Moshe Halbertal: Concealment and Revelation: Esotericism in Jewish Thought and its Philosophical Implications (2007)

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Forward has a detailed review of Moshe Halbertal‘s “Concealment and Revelation: Esotericism in Jewish Thought and Its Philosophical Implications.” Here is the key of the article:

As Moshe Halbertal shows in his brilliant new book, though, the way we understand the “hidden” has evolved over time. Halbertal argues that the three strands of Jewish esotericism that all developed in the 12th and 13th centuries — Kabbalah, philosophy and astrology — created new ways of understanding secrecy and disclosure, concealment and revelation, and that these movements had an impact well beyond the Jewish world.

Nextbook also mentioned the book. Jewish Book World has this to say about it:

Halbertal explains complex issues clearly and gracefully, moving smoothly from dense kabbalistic passages to abstruse texts on medieval philosophy in a way that allows the unspecialized reader to follow his train of thought without plumbing the depths of each theological system to which he refers.