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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Magid, Shaul, 1958-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2008.
Series:Indiana studies in biblical literature.
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of 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".