Table of Contents for Kabbalah and Catastrophe

Kabbalah and Catastrophe
Historical Memory in Premodern Jewish Mysticism
Hartley Lachter

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1.Terrors of History: Finding Order in a World of Chaos

2.Meaning in Exile: Kabbalistic Readings of History Gone Awry

3.The Shape of Time: History and Cosmic Cycles

4.Living across Time: Reincarnation and the Course of History

5.History's Ends: Apocalyptic Secrets in the Present Tense

6.Shaping History: Kabbalistic Writing and Historical Agency

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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