TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gondos,Andrea
TI  - Kabbalah in print: the study and popularization of Jewish mysticism in early modernity 
SN  - 9781438479736
AV  - BM526 .K333 2020
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Albany
PB  - State University of New York Press
KW  - Zohar
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
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