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From metaphysics to midrash : myth, history, and the interpretation of Scripture in Lurianic Kabbala /

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 contract with one another.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Magid, Shaul, 1958-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2008.
Colección:Indiana studies in biblical literature.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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."