From metaphysics to midrash [electronic resource] : myth, history, and the interpretation of Scripture in Lurianic Kabbala / Shaul Magid.
By: Magid, Shaul.
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BookSeries: Indiana studies in biblical literature: Publisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2008Description: xii, 349 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Luria, Isaac ben Solomon, 1534-1572 | Bible. O.T. Pentateuch -- Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish | Cabala -- History | Metaphysics | Other (Philosophy) | Tsefat (Israel) -- Religion -- 16th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 222/.1068092 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-345) and index.
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".
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