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THE ATLAS OF THE ONE AND THE MANY

Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism

Major Trends
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Nine lectures, delivered in Jerusalem in 1938, that laid out the whole history of Jewish mysticism as a field with periods, sources and arguments — Merkavah, Hasidei Ashkenaz, the Bahir and Gerona, the Zohar, Luria, Sabbatianism, Hasidism.

The book that makes it possible to say "the Tree has a Neoplatonic ancestry" as a checkable historical claim rather than a mood.
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whyThe knowledge that lets the rest of the room be argued with.
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major trends · scholem · 1941 · historiography
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