Messianic Mystics

Messianic Mystics

"One of the worl'ds leading scholars of Jewish thought examines the long tradition of Jewish messianism and mystical experience."

Moshe Idel

Pre-Kabbalistic Jewish forms of messianism -- Abraham Abulafia : ecstatic Kabbalah and spiritual messianism -- Concepts of messiah in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries : theosophical forms of Kabbalah -- Messianism and Kabbalah, 1470-1540 -- From Italy to Safed and back, 1540-1640 -- Sabbateanism and mysticism -- Hasidism : mystical messianism and mystical redemption -- Concluding remarks.

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