From metaphysics to midrash [[electronic resource] ] : myth, history, and the interpretation of Scripture in Lurianic Kabbala / / Shaul Magid

• Autore: Magid Shaul <1958->
• 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
• 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.: 9910782782303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Indiana studies in biblical literature.