Kabbalah and Messianism

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Kabbalah (a form of Jewish mysticism emerging during the Medieval period) and various influential messianic ideologies and movements during the early modern and modern eras. Central doctrines of Kabbalah and geographic and social contexts of the evolution of mystical ideas and messianic trends. Factors that led to their popularization. This course is the same as Judaic Studies 4034.