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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782782303321

Autore

Magid Shaul <1958->

Titolo

From metaphysics to midrash [[electronic resource] ] : myth, history, and the interpretation of Scripture in Lurianic Kabbala / / Shaul Magid

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2008

ISBN

1-281-86858-2

9786611868581

0-253-00037-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (369 p.)

Collana

Indiana studies in biblical literature

Disciplina

222/.1068092

Soggetti

Cabala - History

Metaphysics

Other (Philosophy)

Tsefat (Israel) Religion 16th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-345) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Kabbala, new historicism, and the question of boundaries -- The Lurianic myth: a playbill -- Genesis: "And Adam's sin was (very) great": original sin in Lurianic exegesis -- Exodus: The "other" Israel: the ʻerev rav (mixed multitude) as conversos -- Leviticus: The sin of becoming a woman: male homosexuality and the castration complex -- Numbers: Balaam, Moses, and the prophecy of the "other": a Lurianic vision for the erasure of difference -- Deuteronomy: the human and/as God: divine incarnation and the "image of God".

Sommario/riassunto

In From Metaphysics to Midrash, Shaul Magid explores the exegetical                tradition of Isaac Luria and his followers within the historical context in                16th-century Safed, a unique community that brought practitioners of Judaism,                Christianity, and Islam into close contact with one another. Luria's scripture                became a theater in which kabbalists redrew boundaries of difference in areas of                ethnicity, gender, and the human relation to the divine. Magid investigates how                cultural influences altered scriptural exeges