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From metaphysics to midrash

Magid, Shaul, 1958-

From metaphysics to midrash myth, history, and the interpretation of Scripture in Lurianic Kabbala / [electronic resource] : Shaul Magid. - Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2008. - xii, 349 p. : ill. - Indiana studies in biblical literature . - Indiana studies in biblical literature. .

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

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".


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.





GBA870469 bnb

Uk


Luria, Isaac ben Solomon, 1534-1572.


Bible.--O.T.--Pentateuch--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish.


Cabala--History.
Metaphysics.
Other (Philosophy)


Tsefat (Israel)--Religion--16th century.


Electronic books.

BM525.L835 / M34 2008eb

222/.1068092

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