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Kabbalistic Revolution
Hartley Lachter
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Description for Kabbalistic Revolution
Series: Jewish Cultures of the World. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3F; 3H; HBJD; HBLC1; HRJS; HRJX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 549.
The 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.
Hartley Lachter, a scholar of religion studies, transports us to medieval Spain, a place where anti-Semitic propaganda was on the rise and Jewish political power was on the wane. Kabbalistic Revolution proposes that, given this context, Kabbalah must be understood as a radically empowering political discourse. While the era’s Christian ... Read more
The 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.
Hartley Lachter, a scholar of religion studies, transports us to medieval Spain, a place where anti-Semitic propaganda was on the rise and Jewish political power was on the wane. Kabbalistic Revolution proposes that, given this context, Kabbalah must be understood as a radically empowering political discourse. While the era’s Christian ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Rutgers University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Series
Jewish Cultures of the World
Number of Pages
260
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
New Brunswick NJ, United States
ISBN
9780813568751
SKU
V9780813568751
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About Hartley Lachter
HARTLEY LACHTER is the Phillip and Muriel Berman Professor of Jewish Studies and director of the Berman Center for Jewish Studies at Lehigh University.
Reviews for Kabbalistic Revolution
"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
"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 ... Read more
Marc Michael Epstein
Vassar College
"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 ... Read more