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1 online resource (xii, 265 pages) |
| Contents |
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 |
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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 |
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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 |
| Summary |
How did Jewish mysticism go from arcane knowledge to popular spirituality? Kabbalah in Print examines the cultural impact of printing on the popularization, circulation, and transmission of Kabbalah in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. The Zohar, in particular, generated a large secondary literature of study guides and reference works that aimed to ease the linguistic and conceptual challenges of the text. The arrival of printed classics of Kabbalah was soon followed by the appearance of new literary genres--anthologies, digests, lexicons, and other learning aids--that mediated mystical primary sources to a community of readers not versed in this lore. A detailed investigation of the four works by R. Yissakhar Baer (ca.1580-ca.1629) of Prague sheds light on the literary strategies, pedagogic concerns, and religious motivations of secondary elites, a new cadre of authors empowered by the opportunities that printing opened up. Andrea Gondos highlights shifting intellectual and cultural boundaries in the early modern period, when the transmission of Kabbalah became a meeting point connecting various strata of Jewish society as well as Jewish and Christian intellectuals |
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Zohar. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85368564
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Zohar fast |
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Zohar -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. nli |
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(FrPBN)12008414 Zohar. ram |
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Cabala -- Europe, Central -- History -- 17th century
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Printing -- Social aspects -- Europe, Central -- 17th century
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RELIGION / Judaism / Kabbalah & Mysticism.
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Cabala
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Printing -- Social aspects
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Imprimerie -- Aspect social -- Europe centrale -- 17e siecle.
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Kabbale -- Europe centrale -- 17e siecle.
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Central Europe
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781438479736 |
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1438479735 |
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