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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... realm , as a fictionalization of the narrative of the Bible that creates the social real- ity the kabbalists seek to depict.26 In most instances , there is no “ smoking gun ” or “ hard evidence . ” The critic must depend on an ...
... realm of the incarnational.47 The premise of this book is that Lurianic Kabbala , a kabbalistic school that transformed subsequent Jewish mysticism in modernity , is also a lit- erary creation that exhibits strong readings of its ...
... 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 yet not fully God. This noncorporeal dimension does not only exist ...
... realm is brought about through the pera formance of commandments (mitzvot) especially enhanced by the intria cate contemplative techniques. This cosmic/divine realm of sephirot in Lurianic Kabbala, sometimes called the Godhead by ...
... realm for the past that, while connected to the present, is not identical to it. Kabbala has its own myth based loosely on the Bible. It does not bring biblical myth back to life (that would be impossible), but it uses biblical myth as ...
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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 |