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9780253350886

From Metaphysics to Midrash

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  • ISBN13:

    9780253350886

  • ISBN10:

    0253350883

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2008-06-01
  • Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr

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Summary

Rethinks notions of identity, self, and other in the Hebrew Bible

Author Biography

Shaul Magid is Jay and Jeannie Schottenstein Chair in Jewish Studies and Professor in Religious Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgmentsp. ix
List of Abbreviationsp. xi
Introduction: Kabbala, New Historicism, and the Question of Boundariesp. 1
The Lurianic Myth: A Playbillp. 16
Genesis: "And Adam's Sin Was (Very) Great": Original Sin in Lurianic Exegesisp. 34
Exodus: The "Other" Israel: The 'Erev Rav (Mixed Multitude) as Conversosp. 75
Leviticus: The Sin of Becoming a Woman: Male Homosexuality and the Castration Complexp. 111
Numbers: Balaam, Moses, and the Prophecy of the "Other": A Lurianic Vision for the Erasure of Differencep. 143
Deuteronomy: The Human and/as God: Divine Incarnation and the "Image of God"p. 196
Conclusionp. 222
Notesp. 229
Bibliographyp. 321
Indexp. 347
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