From metaphysics to midrash : myth, history, and the interpretation of Scripture in Lurianic Kabbala / Shaul Magid

Author:: Magid, Shaul, 1958-
Published:: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2008]
Copyright Date:: ©2008
Physical Description:: xii, 349 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

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Indiana studies in biblical literature

Contents:

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 ʻerev 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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ISBN:

9780253350886 (cl : alk. paper)
0253350883 (cl : alk. paper)

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Includes bibliographical references (pages [321]-345) and index.

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