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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... notion of the different which claims to be the same or, prot jected internally, the disguised difference within, has prot duced a rich vocabulary of denial and estrangement. For in each case, a theory of difference, when applied to the ...
... notion of original sin (or in the Zohar primordial sin) is extant in many kabbalistic texts, in Luria this idea becomes a promit nent, perhaps even a dominant, trope having an influence on metaphyst ics, cosmogony, cosmology, and ...
... notion of the in- nate bisexuality of all humans ( perhaps influenced by literature extant in Islam ) , that undermines the natural law theory of sexuality common in traditional Jewish circles ( a theory adopted from medieval ...
... notion of divine em- bodiment that traverses its normative boundary of " indwelling " and en- ters into incarnational thinking . The zoharic idea that " God , Israel , and Torah are one " takes on a hyperliteral meaning in the Lurianic ...
... notion of understanding this world as a reflection of the cosmic realm. Like other mystical systems, Kabbala posits that the empirical world we live in is accompanied by another nonempirical dimension—created yet not corporeal, divine ...
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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 |