03036nam 2200637 a 450 991097150450332120251117002916.01-281-86858-297866118685810-253-00037-8(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 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 erev 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 centuryCabalaHistory.Metaphysics.Other (Philosophy)222/.1068092Magid Shaul1958-978822MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910971504503321From metaphysics to midrash4541552UNINA