Preface
Introduction: Reading Mysteries: The Origins of Scholarship on Jewish Mysticism
Hartley Lachter
I. Jewish Mysticism Takes Shape
1 Ancient Jewish Mysticism
Michael D. Swartz
2 The Zohar: Masterpiece of Jewish Mysticism
Eitan P. Fishbane
3 Abraham ben Samuel Abulafia and the Prophetic Kabbalah
Elliot R. Wolfson
4 New Approaches to the Study of Kabbalistic Life in 16th-Century Safed
Lawrence Fine
II. Becoming Modern
5 Mystical Messianism: From the Renaissance to the Enlightenment
Matt Goldish
6 Hasidism: Mystical and Nonmystical Approaches to Interpreting Scripture
Shaul Magid
7 Christian Kabbalah
Allison P. Coudert
III. Contemporary Concerns
8 Kabbalah at the Turn of the 21st Century
Jody Myers
9 Gender in Jewish Mysticism
Hava Tirosh-Samuelson
Epilogue: Kabbalah and Contemporary Judaism
Pinchas Giller
About the Contributors
Index