ISBN:
0253350883
,
9780253350886
Language:
English
Pages:
XII, 349 S.
,
Ill.
,
24 cm
Year of publication:
2008
Series Statement:
Indiana studies in biblical literature
DDC:
222/.1068092
Keywords:
Luria, Isaac ben Solomon
;
Luria, Isaac ben Solomon 1534-1572
;
Bible Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish
;
Bible Criticism, interpretation, etc, Jewish
;
Cabala History
;
Metaphysics
;
Other (Philosophy)
;
Cabala History
;
Metaphysics
;
Other (Philosophy)
;
Tsefat (Israel) Religion 16th century
;
Tsefat (Israel) Religion
;
16th century
;
Lurya, Yitsḥaḳ ben Shelomoh 1534-1572
;
Safad
;
Kabbalistik
;
Thora
;
Rezeption
;
Kabbalistik
;
Bible. Pentateuch
;
Mythos
;
Zohar
;
Kabbalistik
;
Judentum
;
Konversion
;
Proselyt
;
Christentum
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
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 ∫αerev 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".
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-345) and index
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