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

Author/creator Magid, Shaul, 1958-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoBloomington : Indiana University Press,
Descriptionxii, 349 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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SeriesIndiana 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".
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [321]-345) and index.
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LCCN 2007040650
ISBN9780253350886 (cl : alk. paper)
ISBN0253350883 (cl : alk. paper)

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