Gershom Scholem and the Mystical Dimension of Jewish History

by Joseph Dan

Publisher:

NYU Press

, 2023

“An excellent overview of the history of Jewish mysticism from its early beginnings to contemporary Hasidism . . . scholarly and complex” (Library Journal).

Over the course of more than sixty years, Gershom Scholem reassembled the scattered texts of Jewish mysticism. In a monumental work of scholarship, he catalogued and annotated these sacred writings—known collectively as Kabbalah—and restored them to their rightful place in the realm of serious study.

Now Joseph Dan, the first Gershom Scholem Professor of Kabbalah at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, provides a lucid overview of Scholem’s work. Here, Dan delves into Scholem’s history of Kabbalah and its integration into the larger fabric of Jewish history and thought.

Product Details

• Title: Gershom Scholem and the Mystical Dimension of Jewish History
• Author: Joseph Dan
• Publisher: NYU Press
• Print Publication Date: 2023
• Logos Release Date: 2024
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Ebook
• ISBNs: 9780814720974, 9780814718124, 0814718124, 0814720978
• Resource ID: LLS:9780814720974
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-04-18T16:29:59Z

About Joseph Dan

Joseph Dan serves as the Gershom Scholem Professor of Kabbalah in the Department of Jewish Thought of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he has taught since 1958 and been a full professor since 1978. He has also served as a visiting professor in universities the world over, among them, Princeton, Columbia, Brown, University College, London, the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris, and Jewish Theological Seminary.