The Kabbalistic culture of eighteenth-century Prague
| Titel: | The Kabbalistic culture of eighteenth-century Prague : Ezekiel Landau (the Noda Beyehudah) and his contemporaries / Sharon Flatto |
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| Veröffentlicht: | Oxford [u.a.] : Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2010 |
| Umfang: | XII, 268 S. |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| ISBN: | 9781904113393 |
| Hinweise zum Inhalt: |
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| Lokale Klassifikation: | 23 8 P 472 ; 23 8 P 511 ; 23 3 F ; 26 15 P ; 23 7 H |
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- Note on Transliteration and Conventions Used in the Text
- p. xiii
- Introduction
- p. 1
- Part I
- Jewish Culture in Eighteenth-Century Prague
- 1
- Prague's Jewish Community
- p. 23
- 2
- Prague's Rabbinic Culture: Halakhah and Kabbalah
- p. 40
- 3
- Mystical and Modernizing Trends: Prague's Rabbinic Culture Threatened
- p. 64
- Part II
- The Centrality of Kabbalah in Landau's Thought and Writings
- Introduction
- p. 97
- 4
- Historiography, Personal History, and Folk Tales
- p. 98
- 5
- Promotion of Kabbalistic Study, Books, and Customs
- p. 109
- 6
- Tension
- p. 128
- Part III
- Kabbalistic Schools in Landau's Works
- Introduction
- p. 143
- 7
- Zohar and Early Mystical Sources
- p. 147
- 8
- The Path to Devekut: Ecstatic and Cordoverian Teachings
- p. 156
- 9
- Lurianic Kabbalah: Berur, Final Sparks, and the Mission of Exile
- p. 172
- Part IV
- Key Kabbalistic Doctrines for Landau and Prague Jews
- Introduction
- p. 193
- 10
- Demons, the Soul, and the Afterlife
- p. 194
- 11
- The Banished Consort: Theurgy and the Exiled Shekhinah
- p. 210
- Conclusion
- p. 227
- Bibliography
- p. 233
- Index
- p. 261
