Origins of the Kabbalah (Princeton Paperbacks)

I thought I ordered a new book, but it's got sticky stuff all over it, the corners are worn and dented and in trying to remove the sticky stuff the book ripped. I'm not happy with this purchase :/

The book arrived on time and was in great condition, but not brand new.

A good read and, owing at leas to up-to-date scholarship working with recent archaeological findings, is perhaps. a better introduction to Kabalah than the Kabalah itself.. Glad I have a number of very good dictionaries for, despite a good classical education and many years of wide reading, I ran into a number of words I had never seen before..

Super interesting, but super academic, probably come application examples would be nice

Another of Scholem's ground breaking works on mysticism- sterling effort in his attempt to bring the ideas to a wider audience in english and rejuvenate interest in the study of kabbala in general; a goal in which he succeeded.