Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. List of Illustrations xi
4. Abbreviations xiii
5. Introduction 1
6. Chapter One. Hebrew Manuscripts in an Age of Print 29
7. Chapter Two. Early Modern Criticism of the Zohar 59
8. Chapter Three. Guiding the Perplexed 101
9. Chapter Four. Safed in Venice 127
10. Chapter five. A Jewish Response to Christian Kabbalah 149
11. Chapter Six. The Afterlife of Ari Nohem 171
12. Chapter Seven. Kabbalah and Scholarship in the Nineteenth Century 201
13. EPILOGUE. History of a Failure 231
14. Acknowledgments 237
15. Works Cited 239
16. Index 273