How did Jewish mysticism go from arcane knowledge to popular spirituality? Kabbalah in Print examines the cultural impact of printing on the popularization, circulation, and transmission of Kabbalah in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.
The Zohar , in particular, generated a large secondary literature of study guides and reference works that aimed to ease the linguistic and conceptual challenges of the text.
The arrival of printed classics of Kabbalah was soon follo.
State University Of New York Press Kabbalah in print: the study and popularization of jewish mysticism in early modernity, hardcover/andrea gondos
