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7 - Recurrent Themes

Gender, Messianism and Experience?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 July 2020

Jonathan Garb
Affiliation:
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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This chapter traces recurring topics of the entire modern period and its academic treatment, summarizing the differences between subperiods, briefly pointing at domains for further research, and outlining current scholarly trends. Modern Kabbalah has consistently returned to the Lurianic corpus and to the general themes of gender, messianism and experience. It canbe divided into three phases: early, high and late modernity. A crisis of authority posed by Sabbateanism and blended with a more general religious crisis distinguishes the early modern period. This was in turn resolved through the high modern canons of the eighteenth century, an era of stabilization and proliferation of Kabbalah. The rapprochement between Kabbalah and philosophy characterizes the late modern period, along with its messianism, modernism and globalization. Possible areas for future research include a survey of the commentaries on Luria, a treatment of the modern kabbalistic exegesis of a handful of earlier binding sources and a discussion on the role of technology — both in the facilitating and propagation of Kabbalah, and as a theme in kabbalistic discourse.

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A History of Kabbalah
From the Early Modern Period to the Present Day
, pp. 240 - 254
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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  • Recurrent Themes
  • Jonathan Garb, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  • Book: A History of Kabbalah
  • Online publication: 02 July 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316597071.008
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  • Recurrent Themes
  • Jonathan Garb, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  • Book: A History of Kabbalah
  • Online publication: 02 July 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316597071.008
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  • Recurrent Themes
  • Jonathan Garb, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  • Book: A History of Kabbalah
  • Online publication: 02 July 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316597071.008
Available formats
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