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31. JEWISH MYSTICISM AND JEWISH ETHICS, University of Washington Press, Seattle and London, 1986.
Four Stroum lectures delivered in the University of Washington, Seattle 1984. The chapters deal with: The enigma of Hebrew ethical literature; philosophical ethics and the early kabbalah; mysticism and ethics in the thought of the Hasidey Ashkenaz; mystical ethics in sixteenth century Safed; conclusion: the modern period.
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32. GERSHOM SCHOLEM AND THE MYSTICAL DIMENSION IN JEWISH HISTORY, New York: New York University Press, 1987.
A monograph describing the scholarly work of Gershom Scholem and his integration of the history of Jewish mysticism with the history of Jewish culture. The first chapter presents Scholem's biography and his attitude towards kabbalah and mysticism. The main chapters deal with the major phenomena of Jewish mysticism - Hekhalot and Merkabah mysticism, Hasidey Ashkenaz, the Book Bahir, the early kabbalah, the center in Gerona, the Zohar, the Safed school and Isaac Luria, the Sabbatian upheaval, Hasidism and the modern period.
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33. Jewish Mysticism: An Overview, Iszumi Publishing House, Tokyo 1991 (in Japanese)
A comprehensive overview of the history and development of Jewish mysticism, from Late Antiquity to the present, including the early kabbalah, Hasidey Ashkenaz, the Zohar, Lurianic kabbalah, the Sabbatian movement and modern Hasidism.
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34. The Ancient Jewish Mysticism
Tel Aviv, MOD 1992
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A public lecture at Brown University, published as the brown University Program in Judais Studies Occasional Paper no. 2. An analysis of a key paragraph in the ancient mystical work, Hekhalot Rabbati, which is understood as a revelation by Rabbi Nehunia ben Ha-kanah of the essence of the mystical way and the means by which a person can ascend and present himself before God.
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36. The Catalog of the Exhibition: Christian Kabbalah, Jewish Mystical Works and their Christian Readers, Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. 1996.
The list of exhibited books, with brief descriptions and many illustrations. See the volume dedicated to the same subject, below, no. 57.
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37. Jewish Mysticism and Jewish Ethics, second enlarged edition, Aronson Publishers, New Jersey, 1996.
A new edition of the book (above, no. 18), with the edition of a previously unpublished chapter: "Hebrew Ethical Literature and Via Mystica".
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38. Jewish Mysticism,
vol. I: Studies in Jewish Mysticism in Late Antiquity.
Northvale, NJ and London: Jason Aronson, 1998-1999.
Vol. I includes a general introduction to the literature of the ancient Jewish mystics, and the studies: Three types of ancient Jewish mysticism; Jewish Gnosticism?; the memory of the future and the utopia of the past; The revelation of the secret of the world and the beginning of Jewish mysticism in Late Antiquity; the language of creation and its grammar; three phases in the history of Sefer Yezira; the concept of history in the Hekhalot and Merkavah literature; the concept of knowledge in the Shiur Komah; Chochmat ha-Egoz, its origin and development; the seventy names of Metatron; Rashi and the Merkavah; the ancient Hekhalot mystical texts in the Middle Ages: tradition, source, inspiration; the dangers of the mystical ascension in ancient Jewish mystical texts; Yaldabaoth and the language of the Gnostics.
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39. Jewish Mysticism,
vol. II: Studies in Jewish Mysticism in the Middle Ages.
Northvale, NJ and London: Jason Aronson, 1998-1999.
Vol. II includes a general introduction to Jewish mysticism in the Middle ages; Midrash and the dawn of the kabbalah; the emergence of Jewish mysticism in medieval Germany; the Ashkenazi Hasidic concept of language; pseudepigraphy in medieval Jewish mysticism in medieval Germany; a note on the history of teshuvah (repentance) among the Ashkenazi Hasidim; the book of the divine name by Rabbi Eleazar of Worms; Ashkenazi Hasidism and the Maimonidean controversy; the emergence of messianic mythology in the thirteenth-century kabbalah in Spain; the emergence of the mystical prayer; prayer as text and prayer as mystical experience; Pesaq ha-Yirah veha-Emunah and the intention of prayer in Ashkenazi Hasidic esotericism; Ashkenazi Hasidism, 1941-1991: was there really a Hasidic movement in medieval Germany? Jewish culture in medieval Italy: philosophy, ethics, mysticism; an early Hebrew source of the Yiddish Aqdamoth story.
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40. Jewish Mysticism,
vol. III: Studies in Jewish mysticism in Modern Times.
Northvale, NJ and London: Jason Aronson, 1998-1999.
Vol. III includes a general introduction followed by the studies: The epic of a millennium: Judeo-Spanish culture's confrontations; Shevet Yehuda: Past and future history; Manasseh ben Israel: His attitude towards the Zohar and Lurianic kabbalah; Hasidism: the third century; A bow to Frumkinian Hasidism; the contemporary hasidic Zaddik: charisma, heredity, magic and miracle; Gershom Scholem between history and historiosophy; Jewish studies after Gershom Scholem; Gershom Scholem: Between mysticism and scholarship; the Jewish messianic aspects of marxist utopianism; Chaos theory, Lyotard's history and the future of the study of the history of ideas.
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