Editing Kabbalah (section)

===Jewish and non-Jewish Kabbalah===
{{See also|Christian Cabala|Hermetic Qabalah}}
From the [[Renaissance]] onwards Jewish Kabbalah texts entered non-Jewish culture, where they were studied and translated by [[Christian Hebraists]] and [[Hermeticism|Hermetic]] occultists.{{sfnp|Dan|2007|loc=ch. 5 & 9}} The syncretic traditions of [[Christian Cabala]] and [[Hermetic Qabalah]] developed independently of Judaic Kabbalah, reading the Jewish texts as universalist ancient wisdom preserved from the [[Gnostic]] traditions of antiquity.{{sfnp|Scholem|1962}} Both adapted the Jewish concepts freely from their Jewish understanding, to merge with multiple other theologies, religious traditions and magical associations. With the decline of Christian Cabala in the [[Age of Enlightenment|Age of Reason]], Hermetic Qabalah continued as a central underground tradition in [[Western esotericism]]. Through these non-Jewish associations with magic, [[alchemy]] and divination, Kabbalah acquired some popular [[occult]] connotations forbidden within Judaism, where Jewish Practical Kabbalah was a minor, permitted tradition restricted for a few elite. Today, many publications on Kabbalah belong to the non-Jewish [[New Age]] and occult traditions of Cabala, rather than giving an accurate picture of Judaic Kabbalah.{{sfnp|Jacobs|1995|loc=Entry: Kabbalah}} Instead, academic and traditional Jewish publications now translate and study Judaic Kabbalah for wide readership.