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Genre/Form: | Controversial literature History Ouvrages de controverse |
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Named Person: | Leone Modena; Leone Modena; Leon, da Modena.; Leone Modena |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Yaacob Dweck |
ISBN: | 9780691145082 0691145083 9780691162157 0691162158 |
OCLC Number: | 689003613 |
Awards: | Runner-up for American Academy of Religion: Best First Book in the History of Religions 2012 Commended for AJS Jordan Schnitzer Book Award for Biblical Studies, Rabbinics, and Jewish History and Culture in Antiquity 2014 Commended for American Academy of Religion: Best First Book in the History of Religions 2012 |
Description: | 280 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
Contents: | Introduction -- 1. Hebrew manuscripts in an age of print -- 2. Early modern criticism of the Zohar -- 3. Guiding the perplexed -- 4. Safed in Venice -- 5. A Jewish response to Christian Kabbalah -- 6. The afterlife of Ari Nohem -- 7. Kabbalah and scholarship in the nineteenth century -- Epilogue. |
Series Title: | Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the ancient to the modern world. |
Responsibility: | Yaacob Dweck. |
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Finalist for the 2012 Best First Book in the History of Religions Award, American Academy of Religion Honorable Mention for the 2014 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in Medieval and Early Modern Jewish History, Association for Jewish Studies "In this excellent monograph, Dweck situates Modena's literary activity in the polarity between print and manuscript, paying critical attention to the reading and writing practices informing these polemics... This is a meticulous work of scholarship, from its careful examination of ligatures in handwritten manuscripts to the nuanced ways in which Dweck outlines broader intellectual currents, such as early modern skepticism and the emergence of historical criticism."--Choice "Dweck's meticulous and illuminating study has itself breathed new life into the Ari Nohem. It gives one reason to hope that it will finally become available in an English translation and that Yaacob Dweck will make the publication of such a volume one of his future projects."--Howard Tzvi Adelman, Jewish Review of Books "Dweck is to be commended for a sophisticated and readable study that greatly enhances our knowledge of the relationship between mysticism and philosophy, and print and manuscript, in early modern Jewish culture."--Daniel Stein Kokin, Renaissance Quarterly "The Scandal of Kabbalah is a valuable study. It situates Modena's work in a wide variety of contexts, each of which enriches and challenges our understanding of Ari Nohem. Clearly written and highly readable."--Michela Andreatta, AJS Review Read more...


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