Kabbalah : a very short introduction

Author/Creator:

Dan, Joseph, 1935-2022

Publication/Creation:

New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007

Format:

Book

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Additional/Related Title Information

Full Title:

Kabbalah : a very short introduction / Joseph Dan

Series Titles:

Very short introductions ; 162
Very short introductions ; 162.

Subjects/Genre

Subjects:

Cabala

Description/Summary

Table of Contents:

Kabbalah: the term and its meanings -- Ancient Jewish mysticism and the emergence of the kabbalah -- The kabbalah in the Middle Ages -- Main ideas of the medieval kabbalah -- Modern times I: the Christian kabbalah -- Modern times II: Safed and the Lurianic kabbalah -- Modern times III: the Sabbatian messianic movement -- Modern and contemporary Hasidism -- Some aspects of contemporary kabbalah.

Bibliography:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 114-117) and index.

Language:

English

Physical Type/Description:

xii, 130 pages ; 18 cm

General Note:

Originally published: 2006.

Additional Identifiers

Catalog ID (MMSID):

990017296260302486

ISBN:

0195327055 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780195327052 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC Number:

124025280

Barcode:

050000074559