Shedding Light on God's Body in Rabbinic Midrashim: Reflections on the Theory of a Luminous Adam
Paul Veyne wrote a book entitled, Did the Greeks Believe their Myths? Regarding rabbinic Judaism, one might similarly ask: Did the rabbis believe their imagery? Rabbinic literature is so replete with fanciful images of God and humans and anecdotes of epiphanies involving both, that one naturally won...
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Cambridge Univ. Press
1997
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Harvard theological review
Year: 1997, Volume: 90, Issue: 3, Pages: 299-314 |
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