oa Het onderzoek van de vroege joodse mystiek sinds Scholem

In this article the author presents a survey of the major publications in the field of merkavah mysticism and hekhalot literature since Scholem’s epoch-making Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism (1941). He focuses especially on the radically new approaches inaugurated by Peter Schafer and David Halperin in the eighties and stresses the importance of magic in these ancient Jewish texts.