Messianic Mystics

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 MOSHE IDEL

Messianic
Mystics

Yale University Press New Haven & London

Published with assistance from The Lucius N. Littauer Foundation.

Copyright © 1998 by Yale University.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Idel, Moshe, 1947-

Messianic mystics / Moshe Idel.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN: 978-0-300-08288-3

i. Messiah—Judaism—History of doctrines. 2. Cabala—History.

I. Title.
BM6i5.i34 1998
296.3'36—dc2i 98-13905

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