{"product_id":"kabbalistic-revolution-reimagining-judaism-in-medieval-spain-jewish-cultures-of-the-world-9780813568751","title":"Kabbalistic Revolution Reimagining Judaism in","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe set of Jewish mystical teachings known as Kabbalah are often imagined as timeless texts, teachings that have been passed down through the millennia. Yet, as this groundbreaking new study shows, Kabbalah flourished in a specific time and place, emerging in response to the social prejudices that Jews faced.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This book is an exceptionally fresh and significant contribution. It is an important corrective to the tendency to sublimate social history to the history of ideas.\" -- Marc Michael Epstein * Vassar College *\u003cbr\u003e\"Lachter's work is a compelling and important study of the manner in which Kabbalah responded to political and cultural pressures in Castile at a time of striking proliferation of kabbalistic literature.\" -- Jonathan Dauber * professor of Jewish mysticism, Yeshiva University *\u003cbr\u003e\"A worthwhile and edifying contribution to contemporary scholarship on medieval Jewish mysticism.\" * H-Judaic *\u003cbr\u003e\"Lachter succeeds admirably in moving scholarship forward.\" * AJS Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Kabbalistic Writing in Late Thirteenth-Century Castile\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 Masters of Secrets: Claiming Power with Concealed Knowledge\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 Secrets of the Cosmos: Creating a Kabbalistic Universe\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 Secrets of the Self: Kabbalistic Anthropology and Divine Mystery\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 Jewish Bodies and Divine Power: Theurgy and Jewish Law\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5 Prayer Above and Below: Kabbalistic Constructions of the Power of Jewish Worship\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePostscript—Cultural Logics: Kabbalah, Then and Now\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBilbiography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405786456407,"sku":"9780813568751","price":105.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780813568751.jpg?v=1730493614","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/kabbalistic-revolution-reimagining-judaism-in-medieval-spain-jewish-cultures-of-the-world-9780813568751","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}