Shaul Magid

From Metaphysics to Midrash

Myth, History, and the Interpretation of Scripture in Lurianic Kabbala

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Produktbeschreibung

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 exegesis of Lurianic Kabbala in its philosophical, hermeneutical, and historical perspectives. He suggests that Luria and his followers were far from cloistered. They used their considerable skills to weigh in on important matters of the day, offering, at times, some surprising solutions to perennial theological problems.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juli 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 688g
• ISBN-13: 9780253350886
• ISBN-10: 0253350883
• Artikelnr.: 23363828

Autorenporträt

Shaul Magid

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Kabbala, New Historicism, and the Question of Boundaries
The Lurianic Myth: A Playbill
1. Genesis
"And Adam's Sin Was (Very) Great": Original Sin in Lurianic Exegesis
2. Exodus
The "Other" Israel: The Erev Rav (Mixed Multitude) as Conversos
3. Leviticus
The Sin of Becoming a Woman: Male Homosexuality and the Castration Complex
4. Numbers
Balaam, Moses, and the Prophecy of the "Other": A Lurianic Vision for the
Erasure of Difference
5. Deuteronomy
The Human and/as God: Divine Incarnation and the "Image of God"
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index