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1 online resource (326 pages) |
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IJS Studies in Judaica Ser |
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IJS Studies in Judaica Ser
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Intro; Contents; Prefatory Note: Bibliography, Footnotes, Principal Texts, Translations, and Transliterations; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Poetic Mythology for a Broken World; I Otherness and Brokenness; II A (Very Short) Kabbalistic Primer; III Overview of the Book; IV A Final Introductory Note; Chapter 1 Demonic Writing: the Rhetoric and Ontology ofAmbivalence; I Demonic Fascination, Zoharic Writing and Zohar Scholarship; II Textual Proliferation and Stylistic Audacity; III The Rhetoric and Ontology of Ambivalence; A The Ontology of Splitting and the Rhetoric of Parallelism |
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B The Ontology of Abjection and Crystallization The Rhetoric of Irony and Prosopopeia; 1 Splitting and Intimacy; 2 Catharsis and Abjection; 3 Tropes of Transition; Chapter 2 A Divided Cosmos; I Introduction: Ontological Splitting, Rhetorical Parallelism and Tropic Doubling; II Modeling the Other Side: Geography, Essence, Structure; III Reading the Other Side: Paradoxical Textuality; IV The Rhetorical Construction of Splitting I: the Seductions of Schemes; A An Introduction to Anaphora: "There Is ... and ... There Is." |
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B Constructing and Destabilizing through Anaphora: Splitting the Waters, the Letters, the DirectionsC The Indeterminacy of Anaphora: the Uncertain "Ends" of Daniel and Jacob, the Protean "Thousand" of Solomon; D Polysemic Schemes: Constructing the Proximate Heavens and the Distant Curtains; V The Rhetorical Construction of Splitting II: the Ambivalence of Tropes; A Dragons; B Job; C Nogah ("Brightness"); D Conclusion; Chapter 3 The Formation of Self and Other through Abjectionand Crystallization; I Introduction; II The Origin of the Demonic: Theological Concern and MythicNarrative |
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III "Dualism," "Duality," and the Proto-DivineIV From Catharsis to Abjection; V Ambivalences of Origins; A "Thought"; B "Earth"; C "Fierce Wrath"; D "The River"; VI Divine and Demonic: a Family Affair; A Procreational Purification: the "Clean Body" Passage; B Brothers and Sisters: "Improper Twins"; VII Ambivalences of Intimacy; A Dangerous Liaisons; B Seduction of the Divine Phallus and the Generation of the Demonic Spirits (Shedim); C Routinization of Abjection; VIII Ambivalences of Sustenance: "Suckling"; IX Epilogue: a Theurgical Parallel |
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Chapter 4 Impersonating the Self, Collapsing into the Abyss: the Convergence of Horror and RedemptionI Impersonation: Aggressive Enclothing and Ethopoeia; II The Abyss; Bibliography; Index |
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Print version record |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789004386198 |
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900438619X |
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