New paths in Jewish and religious studies : essays in Honor of Professor Elliot R. Wolfson

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910856994303321
• Autore: Dynner Glenn <1969->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: West Lafayette, IN : , : Purdue University Press, , 2024; ©2024
• ISBN: 1-61249-924-4; 1-61249-925-2
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (623 pages)
• Altri autori (Persone): WolfsonElliot R; HeschelSusannah; MagidShaul
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- NEW PATHS IN JEWISH AND RELIGIOUS STUDIES -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- For Elliot Wolfson -- PART I. STUDIES ON RELIGION -- Elliot Wolfson's Philosophical Theology (A Hypothesis) -- "What We Are to Remember in the Future": Thoughts on Elliot Wolfson's Book on Dreams -- Demonology Beyond Dualisms -- The History of Our Present Disaster: Apocalyptic Time, Buber, and 4 Ezra -- Bad Faith -- or, Why the Jews Aren't a Religion -- Divine Economy: Notes on the Religious Apparatus -- In the Name of Time: Marcel Proust, the Zohar, and Elliot Wolfson's Notion of Timeswerve -- The Timeswerve: Reading Elliot Wolfson in a Block Universe -- See Under: Erich Neumann's Typologies of the Great Mother and the Kabbalistic Lexical Tradition -- The Being of Institutional Logics? Notes for a Religious Institutionalism Without God -- PART II. STUDIES ON KABBALAH -- The Tree and the Ministering Angels in Sefer ha-Bahir -- Gender and Vision in Otzar Hayyim/Heikhal ha-Brakha by R. Itzhak Eizik Safrin of Komarno -- Love Letters: The Literal Foundations of Love in the Zohar on the Song of Songs -- A King Without the Matronita Is Not Called "King": Between Queen Consort and Divine Consort in Thirteenth-Century Kabbalah -- Androcentric ; Readings of Kabbalistic Texts by Kabbalists: Delimiting the Polysemia of Kabbalistic Writings -- Secrecy, Kabbalah, and Maimonideanism in the Thirteenth Century -- On Kabbalah and Nature: Language, Being, and Poetic Thinking -- Fear and the Feminine: Kabbalistic Theurgy of the Negative Commandments -- PART III. STUDIES ON JEWISH THOUGHT AND PHILOSOPHY -- Mysticism and the Ontology of Language in the Poetry of Chaim Nachman Bialik -- Universal Singularities: Elliot R. Wolfson on Jewish Ethnocentrism -- Prophetic Vision and Imagination: Reading Maimonides with Wolfson and Wyschogrod.; Philosophy and Dissimulation in Elijah of Vilna's Writings and Legacy -- Idols in the Sanctuary: Elliot Wolfson and Modern Jewish Thought -- To Infinity, Not Beyond: Spinoza's Ontology of the Not One -- A Trace of Levinas: Wolfson's Phenomenology of Vulnerable Learning -- The Mirror Through Which One Sees the Other: Wolfson, Heidegger, Kabbalah, and the Making of a Primary Jewish Text -- A Stolperstein for Blumenberg? -- Home(s) in Future Anteriors -- or, Paths of Poiesis Fourfolded Forward -- When the Particular Is Not Indexical of the Universal: Some Thoughts on the Study of Judaism in Light of Elliot R. Wolfson's Work -- Religion and Technology: The Star of Redemption in the Language of New Media -- PART IV. WORKS BY ELLIOT R. WOLFSON -- Poems -- Publications -- Contributors -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: The work of Elliot R. Wolfson has profoundly influenced the fields of Jewish studies as well as philosophy and religion more broadly. His radically new approaches have created pioneering ways of analyzing texts and thinking about religion through the lens of gender, sexuality, and feminist theory. The contributors to New Paths in Jewish and Religious Studies: Essays in Honor of Professor Elliot R. Wolfson, many of whom are internationally renowned scholars, hearken from diverse fields. Each has learned from and collaborated with Wolfson as student or colleague, and each has expanded the new scholarly directions initiated by Wolfson's groundbreaking work. Wolfson's scholarship gives us innovative ways to think about Judaism and a fresh understanding of religion. Not only a scholar, Wolfson is one of the most important Jewish thinkers of our day. Chapters are grouped according to the categories of religion, Jewish thought and philosophy, and a focused section on Kabbalah, Wolfson's primary specialization. The volume concludes with a bibliography of Wolfson's published work and a selection of his poetry.