{"product_id":"mystical-resistance-ellen-d-haskell-9780190600433","title":"Mystical Resistance: Uncovering the Zohar's Conversations with Christianity","description":"The thirteenth-century Jewish mystical classic \u003cem\u003eSefer ha-Zohar\u003c\/em\u003e (The Book of Splendor), commonly known as the Zohar, took shape against a backdrop of rising anti-Judaism in Spain. \u003cem\u003eMystical Resistance\u003c\/em\u003e reveals that in addition to the Zohar's role as a theological masterpiece, its kabbalistic teachings offer passionate and knowledgeable critiques of Christian majority culture. During the Zohar's development, Christian friars implemented new missionizing strategies, forced Jewish attendance at religious disputations, and seized and censored Jewish books. In response, the kabbalists who composed the Zohar crafted strategically subversive narratives aimed at diminishing Christian authority. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHidden between the lines of its fascinating stories, the Zohar makes daring assertions that challenge themes important to medieval Christianity, including Christ's Passion and ascension, the mendicant friars' new missionizing strategies, and Gothic art's claims of Christian dominion. These assertions rely on an intimate and complex knowledge of Christianity gleaned from rabbinic sources, polemic literature, public Church art, and encounters between Christians and Jews. Much of the kabbalists' subversive discourse reflects language employed by writers under oppressive political regimes, treading a delicate line between public and private, power and powerlessness, subservience and defiance. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBy placing the Zohar in its thirteenth-century context, Haskell opens this text as a rich and fruitful source of Jewish cultural testimony produced at the epicenter of sweeping changes in the relationship between medieval Western Europe's Christian majority and its Jewish minority.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ellen D. Haskell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0190600438\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780190600433\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford Univ PR\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 250\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.70d","brand":"Ellen D. Haskell","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46311010238719,"sku":"9780190600433","price":185.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_bb6da5d2-a5e9-4b60-9e42-269c08ec710f.jpg?v=1730887851","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/mystical-resistance-ellen-d-haskell-9780190600433","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}