1.

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



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910790200203321

Autore

Matsuda Matt K.

Titolo

Pacific worlds : a history of seas, peoples, and cultures / / Matt K. Matsuda [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2012

ISBN

1-107-22614-7

1-139-20949-3

1-280-56871-2

9786613598318

1-139-22233-3

1-139-03431-6

1-139-21752-6

1-139-21444-6

1-139-22404-2

1-139-22061-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 436 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Classificazione

HIS004000

NK 4550

Disciplina

995

Soggetti

Pacific Area Civilization

Pacific Area History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Encircling the ocean -- Civilization without a center -- Trading rings and tidal empires -- Straits, sultans and treasure fleets -- Conquered colonies and Iberian ambitions -- Island encounters and the Spanish lake -- Sea changes and spice islands -- Samurai, priests, and potentates -- Pirates and raiders of the eastern seas -- Asia, America, and the age of the galleons -- Navigators of Polynesia and paradise -- Gods and sky piercers -- Extremities of the Great Southern Continent -- The world that Canton made -- Flags, treaties, and gunboats -- Migrations, plantations, and the people trade -- Imperial destinies on foreign shores -- Traditions of engagement and ethnography -- War stories from the Pacific theater -- Prophets and



rebels of decolonization -- Critical mass for the earth and ocean -- Specters of memory, agents of development -- Repairing legacies, claiming histories -- Afterword: World heritage.

Sommario/riassunto

Asia, the Pacific Islands and the coasts of the Americas have long been studied separately. This essential single-volume history of the Pacific traces the global interactions and remarkable peoples that have connected these regions with each other and with Europe and the Indian Ocean, for millennia. From ancient canoe navigators, monumental civilisations, pirates and seaborne empires, to the rise of nuclear testing and global warming, Matt Matsuda ranges across the frontiers of colonial history, anthropology and Pacific Rim economics and politics, piecing together a history of the region. The book identifies and draws together the defining threads and extraordinary personal narratives which have contributed to this history, showing how localised contacts and contests have often blossomed into global struggles over colonialism, tourism and the rise of Asian economies. Drawing on Asian, Oceanian, European, American, ancient and modern narratives, the author assembles a fascinating Pacific region from a truly global perspective.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910160672703321

Autore

Doyle Arthur Conan

Titolo

Study in Scarlet

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Sheba Blake Publishing, 2013

ISBN

1-304-03968-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (360 p.)

Soggetti

Detective and mystery stories

Criminal investigation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Sommario/riassunto

The first story to feature Sherlock Holmes, wherein the detective resolves to solve the mystery of a corpse found at a derelict house with the word ""RACHE"" scrawled in blood on the wall beside the body. A story of lost love, revenge, and mystery!