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Magid Shaul <1958->
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Titolo: |
From metaphysics to midrash [[electronic resource] ] : myth, history, and the interpretation of Scripture in Lurianic Kabbala / / Shaul Magid
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Pubblicazione: | Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2008 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (369 p.) |
Disciplina: | 222/.1068092 |
Soggetto topico: | Cabala - History |
Metaphysics | |
Other (Philosophy) | |
Soggetto geografico: | Tsefat (Israel) Religion 16th century |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | From metaphysics to midrash ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-281-86858-2 |
9786611868581 | |
0-253-00037-8 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910454499503321 |
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