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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... suggest that these exe- getical or metaphysical comments may have social import and , more im- portantly , that the exegetical enterprise is a way of reenvisioning canoni- cal literature so that these social changes can be integrated ...
... suggests , gender is not solely biologically deter- mined because males can contain female souls and vice versa ... suggest 12 From Metaphysics to Midrash.
... suggest a 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 ...
... suggests that midrash (the rabbinic method of reading Scripture) is, in part, a response to the distance the sages felt between themselves and the Bible—a distance crea ated by time, circumstance, religious sentiment, and necessity (the ...
... suggests, an example of “incorporeal corporeality.” Myths almost always have a pragmatic foundation—they do important cultural work. Most Jewish myths subsequent to the Bible are founded on three covenantal principles the first two of ...
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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 |