Kabbalah and Counter-History, Second Edition
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Köp båda 2 för 978 kr[An] important and original bookthe first attempt to confront Scholems stature as a contemporary theologianerudite and admirably written. * New York Times Book Review * An excellent and deeply interesting study Biales intelligent and helpful book displays Scholem not as a dry-as-dust scholar, but as a thinker and even a poet whose vision of Judaism contains a split or abyss that is only precariously healed. * Commentary * In this brilliant and insightful study of the man, his life and works, his contributions to the understanding of Judaism in this age of secularism and nationalism, of religion caught short of spiritual components, David Biale has illuminated some of the essential issues for both Jewish and non-Jewish readers. -- Robert Kirsch * Los Angeles Times *
David Biale teaches in the Judaic Studies Program at the State University of New York at Binghamton.
Introduction 1. From Berlin to Jerusalem 2. Mysticism 3. Myth 4. Messianism 5. The Politics of Historiography 6. Theology, Language, and History Epilogue: Between Mysticism and Modernity A Birthday Letter from Gershom Scholem to Zalman Schocken Selected Bibliography Notes Index