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Subject: Soc.Culture.Jewish Reading List

Kabbalah, Mysticism, and Messianism
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  Academic Treatments of Kaballah
  
   [Ari92]
          Ariel, David. The Mystic Quest: An Introduction to Jewish
          Mysticism Schocken Press. 1992.
          
   [Dan86]
          Dan, Joseph. Jewish Mysticism and Jewish Ethics.
          University of Washington Press, Seattle WA. 1986.
          
   [Fin95]
          Fine, Lawrence. Essential Papers on Kabbalah. NYU Press.
          1995. [according to the JTS catalog]
          
   [Ide88]
          Idel, Moshe. Kabbalah: New Perspectives. New Haven CT:
          Yale University Press. 1988.
          
   [Low90]
          Lowenthal, Naftali. Communicating the Infinite. University
          of Chicago, Chicago IL. 1990.
          
   [Mat93]
          Matt, Daniel Chanan. Zohar, The Book of Enlightenment. New
          York NY: Paulist Press. 1983.
          
   [Sch60]
          Scholem, Gershom. Jewish Gnosticism, Merkvah Mysticism and
          Talmudic Tradition. Ktav, New York. 1960. 2nd Ed. Block,
          New York. 1965.
          
   [Sch41]
          Scholem, Gershom. Major trends in Jewish Mysticism.
          Schocken, New York. 1941.
          
   [Sch49]
          Scholem, Gershom G. Zohar: The Book of Splendor-Basic
          Readings from the Kabbalah. Schocken, New York. 1949.
          
   [Sch65]
          Scholem, Gershom G. On the Kabbalah and Its Symbolism.
          Schocken, New York. 1965.
          
   [Sch73]
          Scholem, Gershom G. Sabbatai Sevi. 2 vols. Princeton Univ.
          Press, Princeton NJ. 1973.
          
   [Sha82]
          Sharot, Stephen. Messianism, Mysticism & Magic: a
          Sociological Analysis of Jewish Religious Movements. Univ
          of North Carolina Press. 1982.
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