From metaphysics to midrash: myth, history, and the interpretation of Scripture in Lurianic Kabbala
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 beco...
| Summary: | 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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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-345) and index |
| Physical Description: | XII, 349 S., Ill., 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 0253350883 |