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A world of piety : the aims of Castilian kabbalah / Jeremy Phillip Brown.
Van Pelt Library BM525.A59 B74 2025
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brown, Jeremy P. (Jeremy Phillip), author.
- Series:
- Stanford studies in Jewish mysticism
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Moses ben Shem Tov, de Leon, 1250-1305--Criticism, Textual.
- Moses ben Shem Tov.
- Zohar.
- Piety--Early works to 1800.
- Piety.
- Spiritual life--Judaism--Early works to 1800.
- Spiritual life.
- Mysticism--Judaism--Early works to 1800.
- Mysticism.
- Cabala--Spain--History--To 1500.
- Cabala.
- Cabala--History.
- Mysticism--Judaism.
- Spiritual life--Judaism.
- Spain.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 297 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2025]
- Summary:
- "A World of Piety offers an historical-critical inquiry into the practical aims of Castilian kabbalah, including the Book of the Zohar, revealing the overlooked pietistic and revivalist aims of these texts"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Revival of ancient piety
- Kill or be killed : spiritual assassination and the normalization of ascetic values
- Thirteen attributes of compassion : Judeomorphism and the fidelity of mimesis
- Making other people : formative aspirations of zoharic piety
- Pietism and the history of kabbalah.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-281) and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Brown, Jeremy P. (Jeremy Phillip). World of piety.
- ISBN:
- 9781503643666
- 1503643662
- OCLC:
- 1493516846
- Publisher Number:
- CIPO000265801
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