Kabbalah in print : the study and popularization of Jewish mysticism in early modernity /
Andrea Gondos.
- Albany : State University of New York Press, (c)2020.
- 1 online resource (xii, 265 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
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 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 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