Essential Papers on Kabbalah.

New York: New York University Press, 1995. Softbound. Octavo, paper covers with a slight bump near the base of the spine, 551 pp., index, about the editor. Very Good. Item #60224
ISBN: 0814726291

Introduction by Fine. Articles are "The Zohar: Jewish Mysticism in Medieval Spain," Arthur Green, "Ayin: The Concept of Nothingness in Jewish Mysticism," Daniel C. Matt, "The Doctrine of man in the Zohar," Isaiah Tishby, "Samael, Lilith, and the Concept of Evil in Early Kabbalah," Joseph Dan, "The Meaning of the Torah in Jewish Mysticism," Gershom Scholem, "Myth vs. Symbol in the Zohar and in Lurianic Kabbalah," Yehuda Liebes, "The Doctrine of Transmigration in Galya Raza," Rachel Elior, "Eternality of Punishment: A Theological Controversy within the Amsterdam Rabbinate in the Thirties of the Seventeenth Century," Alexander Altmann, "The Zaddiq as Axis Mundi in Later Judaism," Arthur Green, "The Art of Metopscopy: A Study in Isaac Luria's Charismatic Knowledge," Fine, "Prayer and Devotion in the Zohar," Isaiah Tishby, "Kabbalistic Rituals of Sabbath Preparation," Elliott K. Ginsburg, "Mystical Techniques," Moshe Idel, "Circumcision, Vision of God, and Textual Interpretation: From Midrashic Trope to Mystical Symbol," Elliot R. Wolfson, "Woman as High Priest: A Kabbalistic Prayer in Yiddish for Lighting Sabbath Candles," Chava Weissler.

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