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1 online resource (2106 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Prologue: Timeswerve/Hermeneutic Reversibility; 1 Showing the Saying: Laying Interpretative Ground; 2 Differentiating (In)Difference: Heresy, Gender, and Kabbalah Study; 3 Phallomorphic Exposure: Concealing Soteric Esotericism; 4 Male Androgyne: Engendering E/Masculation; 5 Flesh Become Word: Textual Embodiment and Poetic Incarnation; 6 Envisioning Eros: Poiesis and Heeding Silence; 7 Eunuchs Who Keep Sabbath: Erotic Asceticism / Ascetic Eroticism |
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8 Coming-to-Head, Returning-to-Womb: (E)Soteric Gnosis and Overcoming Gender DimorphismEpilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index of Names and Book Titles; Index of Subjects and Terms |
| Summary |
This long-awaited, magisterial study-an unparalleled blend of philosophy, poetry, and philology-draws on theories of sexuality, phenomenology, comparative religion, philological writings on Kabbalah, Russian formalism, Wittgenstein, Rosenzweig, William Blake, and the very physics of the time-space continuum to establish what will surely be a highwater mark in work on Kabbalah. Not only a study of texts, Language, Eros, Being is perhaps the fullest confrontation of the body in Jewish studies, if not in religious studies as a whole. Elliot R. Wolfson explores the complex gender symbolism that per |
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Print version record |
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Cabala -- History
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Masculinity of God.
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Femininity of God.
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Poetics.
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Imagination -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.
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Hermeneutics -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.
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Literature -- Philosophy.
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Literature -- Philosophy.
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Cabala.
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Femininity of God.
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Hermeneutics -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.
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Imagination -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.
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Masculinity of God.
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Poetics.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780823224203 |
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0823224201 |
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