Description

In this presentation Boaz Huss of Ben Gurion University discusses two texts, one from the sixteenth century, and one from the eighteenth century, illustrating the popularization of the Zohar, the foundational kabbalistic text, in the early modern period.

Streaming Media

 
Media is loading

Start Date

24-8-2004 1:15 PM

End Date

24-8-2004 2:15 PM

Location

Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT

Presentation 05-EMW-2004-Huss.pdf (427 kB)
Minhat Yehuda (1558) and Mitpahat Sefarim (1769)

Share

COinS
 
Aug 24th, 1:15 PM Aug 24th, 2:15 PM

Popularization of the Kabbalah: Two Early Modern Perspectives

Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT

In this presentation Boaz Huss of Ben Gurion University discusses two texts, one from the sixteenth century, and one from the eighteenth century, illustrating the popularization of the Zohar, the foundational kabbalistic text, in the early modern period.