TY - BOOK AU - Dan,Joseph TI - Kabbalah :a very short introduction T2 - Very short introductions SN - 0195327055 (pbk. : alk. paper) U1 - 296.16 22 PY - 2007/// CY - Oxford, New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Cabala N1 - 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 ER -