From Metaphysics to Midrash: Myth, History, and the Interpretation of Scripture in Lurianic KabbalaIndiana University Press, 09/07/2008 - 349 من الصفحات 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. |
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... Sinai , this poison ceased to function . For gen- tiles ( ovdei kokhavim ) who did not stand at Sinai the [ serpent's ] poison never ceased to affect them . . . . R. Abba bar Kahane dis- agrees . Says R. Abba bar Kahane , this poison ...
... Sinai , Vital sets up a distinction between " the nations " and the ' erev rav who indeed did experience Sinai , albeit differently from Israel : And all the people witnessed the thunder and the lightening ( Exod . 20:15 ) . ... Know ...
... Sinai . In order to make this chronology fit the midrashic use of Balaam , the rabbis reinvent the story as a lesson about Sinaitic exclusivity in ret- rospect.75 Israel merited Sinai because the nations were already discred- ited . The ...