03099nam 2200649 a 450 991045449950332120200520144314.01-281-86858-297866118685810-253-00037-8(CKB)1000000000691939(EBL)369490(OCoLC)476204879(SSID)ssj0000296960(PQKBManifestationID)11226170(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000296960(PQKBWorkID)10333029(PQKB)11041564(MiAaPQ)EBC369490(MdBmJHUP)muse16812(Au-PeEL)EBL369490(CaPaEBR)ebr10257210(CaONFJC)MIL186858(EXLCZ)99100000000069193920071002d2008 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrFrom metaphysics to midrash[electronic resource] myth, history, and the interpretation of Scripture in Lurianic Kabbala /Shaul MagidBloomington Indiana University Pressc20081 online resource (369 p.)Indiana studies in biblical literatureDescription based upon print version of record.0-253-35088-3 Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-345) and index.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".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 exegesIndiana studies in biblical literature.CabalaHistoryMetaphysicsOther (Philosophy)Tsefat (Israel)Religion16th centuryElectronic books.CabalaHistory.Metaphysics.Other (Philosophy)222/.1068092Magid Shaul1958-978822MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910454499503321From metaphysics to midrash2231045UNINA