"Peering Through the Lattices": Mystical, Magical, and Pietistic Dimensions in the Tosafist Period

by Ephraim Kanarfogel

Kanarfogel makes available for the first time many passages produced by lesser known tosafists and rabbinic figures and integrates the findings of earlier and contemporary scholarship, much of it published only in Hebrew. "

During the high Middle Ages, the tosafists flourished in northern Europe and revolutionized the study of the Talmud. These Jewish scholars did not participate in the philosophical and religious thought that concerned...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814325319
• ISBN13: 9780814325315
• Release Date: May 2000
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"