From Metaphysics to Midrash
Myth, History, and the Interpretation of Scripture in Lurianic Kabbala
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ISBN-13:
9780253350886
Veröffentl:
2008
Erscheinungsdatum:
09.07.2008
Seiten:
368
Autor:
Shaul Magid
Gewicht:
688 g
Format:
235x157x24 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
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.
Introduction: Kabbala, New Historicism, and the Question of BoundariesThe Lurianic Myth: A Playbill1. Genesis"And Adam's Sin Was (Very) Great": Original Sin in Lurianic Exegesis2. ExodusThe "Other" Israel: The Erev Rav (Mixed Multitude) as Conversos3. LeviticusThe Sin of Becoming a Woman: Male Homosexuality and the Castration Complex4. NumbersBalaam, Moses, and the Prophecy of the "Other": A Lurianic Vision for the Erasure of Difference5. DeuteronomyThe Human and/as God: Divine Incarnation and the "Image of God"ConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex
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