PhD Field Exams
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Reading the Zohar: The Canon of Jewish Mysticism

Green, Arthur
Keter

Elior, Rachel
The Paradoxical Ascent to God

Holdrege, Barbara
Veda and Torah

Idel, Moshe
Absorbing Perfections
Hasidism: Between Ecstasy and Magic
Kabbalah: New Perspectives
Messianic Mystics
Studies in Ecstatic Kabbalah
The Mystical Experience in Abraham Abulafia


Katz, Stevenson
Mysticism and Language

Kugel
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Ostow, Mortimer
Psychodynamics of Jewish Mysticism

Scholem, Gershom
Kabbalah
Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism
On the Kabbalah and its Symbolism
Origins of Kabbalah
Sabbatai Sevi: The Mystical Messiah
Zohar : The Book of Splendor: Basic Readings from the Kabbalah


Tanya

Wolfson, Elliot
Abraham Abulafia - Kabbalist and Prophet : Hermeneutics, Theosophy and Theurgy
Along the Path: Studies in Kabbalistic Myth, Symbolism, and Hermeneutics
Circle in the Square: Studies in the Use of Gender in Kabbalistic Symbolism
Through a Speculum That Shines : Vision and Imagination in Medieval Jewish Mysticism

Zohar



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