Kabbalah :a very short introduction /

Dan, Joseph, 1935-

Kabbalah :a very short introduction / Joseph Dan. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007. - xii, 130 p. : ill., ports. ; 18 cm. - Very short introductions ; 162. . - Very short introductions ; 162. .

Originally published: 2006.

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

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.

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