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Contents

Preface

Introduction: Reading Mysteries: The Origins of Scholarship on Jewish Mysticism

I. JEWISH MYSTICISM TAKES SHAPE

1 Ancient Jewish Mysticism

2 The Zohar: Masterpiece of Jewish Mysticism

3 Abraham ben Samuel Abulafia and the Prophetic Kabbalah

4 New Approaches to the Study of Kabbalistic Life in 16th-Century Safed

II. BECOMING MODERN

5 Mystical Messianism: From the Renaissance to the Enlightenment

6 Hasidism: Mystical and Nonmystical Approaches to Interpreting Scripture

7 Christian Kabbalah

III. CONTEMPORARY CONCERNS

8 Kabbalah at the Turn of the 21st Century

9 Gender in Jewish Mysticism

Epilogue: Kabbalah and Contemporary Judaism

About the Contributors

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