Canonization and Alterity: Heresy in Jewish History, Thought, and Literature

Published by De Gruyter 2020

Canonization and Alterity

Heresy in Jewish History, Thought, and Literature

Edited by: Gilad Sharvit and Willi Goetschel

Volume 14 in the series Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110671582

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About this book

This volume offers an examination of varied forms of expressions of heresy in Jewish history, thought and literature. Contributions explore the formative role of the figure of the heretic and of heretic thought in the development of the Jewish traditions from antiquity to the 20^th century. Chapters explore the role of heresy in the Hellenic period and Rabbinic literature; the significance of heresy to Kabbalah, and the critical and often formative importance the challenge of heresy plays for modern thinkers such as Spinoza, Freud, and Derrida, and literary figures such as Kafka, Tchernikhovsky, and I.B. Singer. Examining heresy as a boundary issue constitutive for the formation of Jewish tradition, this book contributes to a better understanding of the significance of the figure of the heretic for tradition more generally.

Author / Editor information

Gilad Sharvit, Tel Aviv University, Israel; Willi Goetschel, University of Toronto, Canada.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Introduction Willi Goetschel and Gilad Sharvit Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part 1: Jewish Antiquity
Was Hellenism a Jewish Heterodoxy? Erich S. Gruen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
Negotiating Heresy: Belief and Identity in Early Rabbinic Literature Adiel Schremer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	30
Revelation as Heresy: Mysticism and Elisha ben Abuyah’s Apostasy in Classic Rabbinic Literature Shraga Bar-On and Eugene D. Matanky Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	50
Part 2: Jewish Mysticism from the Middle Ages to Modernity
King David as the Fourth Leg of the Chariot – Gender, Identity, and Heresy Ruth Kara-Ivanov Kaniel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
Abraham Abulafia: The Apotheosis of a Medieval Heretic in Modern Me’ah She‘arim Moshe Idel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
Part 3: Literature in Jewish Modernity
The Authentic Paganism of Saul Tchernikhovsky Robert Alter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
Heretical Canines: Kafka’s “Forschungen eines Hundes” (Investigations of a Dog) David Suchoff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
Isaac Bashevis Singer and the Poetics of Negativity Noam Gil Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	194
Part 4: Modern Jewish Thought
Spinoza, Heresy, and the Discourse of Modernity Willi Goetschel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
The Dialectics of Heresy: Trauma and History in Freud Gilad Sharvit Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	228
Liquid Theology and the Messianism of Life: Marrano Heresy in Benjamin and Derrida Agata Bielik-Robson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	244
Is the Academic Study of Judaism Heresy? Shaul Magid Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	266
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	291
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	293

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 297
Keywords: Heresy; Jewish Identity; Canonization; Jewish Tradition

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Published: July 6, 2020
ISBN: 9783110671582

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Published: July 6, 2020
ISBN: 9783110667936

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Published: July 18, 2022
ISBN: 9783110992403