LEADER 04687nam 22008294a 450 001 9910451103103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8232-4735-X 010 $a0-8232-3537-8 010 $a1-282-69864-8 010 $a9786612698644 010 $a0-8232-3785-0 010 $a0-8232-2420-1 024 7 $a10.1515/9780823237852 035 $a(CKB)1000000000292164 035 $a(EBL)476703 035 $a(OCoLC)727645709 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000081602 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11107677 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000081602 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10114745 035 $a(PQKB)10044055 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000021274 035 $a(OCoLC)647876520 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse14956 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3239493 035 $a(DE-B1597)555172 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780823237852 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC476703 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3239493 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10365113 035 $a(OCoLC)1099084448 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL476703 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000292164 100 $a20040927d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aLanguage, eros, being$b[electronic resource] $ekabbalistic hermeneutics and poetic imagination /$fElliot R. Wolfson 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York $cFordham University Press$d2005 215 $a1 online resource (796 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8232-2419-8 311 $a0-8232-2418-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 599-714) and indexes. 327 $aPrologue : timeswerve/hermeneutic reversibility -- Showing the saying : laying interpretative ground -- Differentiating (in)difference : heresy, gender, and Kabbalah study -- Phallomorphic exposure : concealing soteric esotericism -- Male androgyne : engendering e/masculation -- Flesh become word : textual embodiment and poetic incarnation -- Envisioning eros : poiesis and heeding silence -- Eunuchs who keep Sabbath: erotic asceticism/ascetic eroticism -- Coming-to-head, returning-to-womb: (e)soteric gnosis and overcoming gender dimorphism. 330 $aThis long-awaited, magisterial study-an unparalleled blend of philosophy, poetry, and philology-draws on theories of sexuality, phenomenology, comparative religion, philological writings on Kabbalah, Russian formalism, Wittgenstein, Rosenzweig, William Blake, and the very physics of the time-space continuum to establish what will surely be a highwater mark in work on Kabbalah. Not only a study of texts, Language, Eros, Being is perhaps the fullest confrontation of the body in Jewish studies, if not in religious studies as a whole.Elliot R. Wolfson explores the complex gender symbolism that permeates Kabbalistic literature. Focusing on the nexus of asceticism and eroticism, he seeks to define the role of symbolic and poetically charged language in the erotically configured visionary imagination of the medieval Kabbalists. He demonstrates that the traditional Kabbalistic view of gender was a monolithic and androcentric one, in which the feminine was conceived as being derived from the masculine. He does not shrink from the negative implications of this doctrine, but seeks to make an honest acknowledgment of it as the first step toward the redemption of an ancient wisdom.Comparisons with other mystical traditions-including those in Christianity, Buddhism, and Islam-are a remarkable feature throughout the book. They will make it important well beyond Jewish studies, indeed, a must for historians of comparative religion, in particular of comparative mysticism.Praise for Elliot R. Wolfson:"Through a Speculum That Shines is an important and provocative contribution to the study of Jewish mysticism by one of the major scholars now working in this field."-Speculum 606 $aCabala$xHistory 606 $aMasculinity of God 606 $aFemininity of God 606 $aPoetics 606 $aImagination$xReligious aspects$xJudaism 606 $aHermeneutics$xReligious aspects$xJudaism 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aCabala$xHistory. 615 0$aMasculinity of God. 615 0$aFemininity of God. 615 0$aPoetics. 615 0$aImagination$xReligious aspects$xJudaism. 615 0$aHermeneutics$xReligious aspects$xJudaism. 676 $a296.1/6 700 $aWolfson$b Elliot R$0887370 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910451103103321 996 $aLanguage, eros, being$92448189 997 $aUNINA