RT Journal Article SR Electronic(1) A1 Horst, P.W. van derYR 1990 T1 Het onderzoek van de vroege joodse mystiek sinds Scholem JF NTT Journal for Theology and the Study of Religion, VO 44 IS 2 SP 121 OP 138 DO https://doi.org/10.5117/NTT1990.44.003.HORS PB Amsterdam University Press, SN 2590-3268, AB Abstract 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., UL https://www.aup-online.com/content/journals/10.5117/NTT1990.44.003.HORS