Joseph Dan & Frank Talmage (eds.), ‘Studies in Jewish Mysticism’

Originally published in The Heythrop Journal, 26:2 (1985), pp. 235-6. Studies in Jewish Mysticism. Edited by Joseph Dan and Frank Talmage. Pp. x, 220, Cambridge (Mass.), Association for Jewish Studies, 1982, $25.00. It is notorious that the rationalistic bent of the majority of 19th-century Jewish scholars led them to dismiss Jewish mysticism as unworthy of scholarly…