From Metaphysics to Midrash: Myth, History, and the Interpretation of Scripture in Lurianic KabbalaIndiana University Press, 09/07/2008 - 368 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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... century Safed ( at least until the second third of that century ) was a dis- tinctive nexus between Judaism , Christianity , and Islam.16 The Islamic context was the newly founded Ottoman Empire , beginning in 1516 , that was ...
... century , the Italian Renaissance , early modern Christian Kabbala , Lith- uanian spirituality , Hasidism , and contemporary Jewry . It is not my in- tention to enter into the scholarly debate about the impact of Lurianic teaching more ...
... century Safed is undeniable , as scholars such as Abraham David indicate.32 The fact that the conversos present us with an interesting and problematic community is generally accepted . What I am doing is linking the historical fact with ...
... century Jewry , especially in the Holy Land.42 Many conversos held Jewish beliefs and customs , even though they did not know their mean- ing , content , or context , but practiced a kind of unarticulated clandestine Judaism while ...
... century where male homosexuality was forbidden but tacitly tolerated . The chapter on Numbers discusses the status of non - Israelite prophecy in the Lurianic system with reference to the biblical episode of Balaam ( Num . 22 : 1-25 : 9 ) ...
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| 16 | |
1 Genesis | 34 |
2 Exodus | 75 |
3 Leviticus | 111 |
4 Numbers | 143 |
5 Deuteronomy | 196 |
Conclusion | 222 |
Notes | 229 |
Bibliography | 321 |
Index | 347 |
back cover | 355 |