Kabbalah in print: the study and popularization of Jewish mysticism in early modernity
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Intellectual Climate in Prague at the Dawn of the Seventeenth Century -- The Cultural Context: Secondary Elites and the Popularization of Kabbalah -- Shifting Intellectual Boundaries: Transnational Kabbalistic Netwo...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Albany
State University of New York Press
[2020]
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| In: | Year: 2020 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Gondos, Andrea, Kabbalah in print] (2022) (Citron, Joseph)
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Cabala
/ Popularization
/ Central Europe
/ Geschichte 1600 - 1700
B Yosef ben Yiśakhar Ber, ish Prag B Zohar |
| Further subjects: | B
Printing-Social aspects-Europe, Central-17th century
B Electronic books B Zohar |
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Non-electronic |
| Summary: | Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Intellectual Climate in Prague at the Dawn of the Seventeenth Century -- The Cultural Context: Secondary Elites and the Popularization of Kabbalah -- Shifting Intellectual Boundaries: Transnational Kabbalistic Networks in Early Modernity -- Overview -- Chapter 1 Print Technology and Its Impact on Religious Consciousness -- Printing and Its Impact on Christianity -- Trajectories of Hebrew Printing -- Christian Consumers of Kabbalistic Books -- Printing Jewish Mysticism: The Zohar and Other Works -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2 Cultural Agency and Printing in Early Modern Ashkenaz -- The Rise of New Agents of Culture in Early Modern Ashkenaz -- Rabbi Yissakhar Baer's Biography -- The Printers-The Gersonides Dynasty of Prague -- Chapter 3 Kabbalistic Abridgments and Their Cultural Impact -- The Use and Impact of Christian Reference Aids -- A Jewish Response to Printing: The Emergence of Shortcuts -- Abridgments to Works of Kabbalah -- Pitḥei Yah: A Digest to Cordovero's Pardes Rimonim -- Chapter 4 Zoharic Customs in a Halakhic Framework -- Halakhah and Kabbalah: Issues and Developments -- Ritual Observance and the Sustenance of the Divine World: Yesh Sakhar -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5 Constructing a Zoharic Lexicon -- The Use of Lexical Aids among Humanist Scholars in Early Modern Europe -- "Entrance" into the Words of the Zohar: Lexicographic Practice in Kabbalah -- Offering Words of Understanding: Yissakhar Baer's Lexicon to the Zohar -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6 The Plain Meaning of the Zohar: An Anthological Approach -- Conclusion -- Chapter 7 The Influence of Kabbalistic Study Guides and Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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| ISBN: | 1438479735 |