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1 online resource (417 p.) |
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Routledge Jewish Studies Ser |
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Routledge Jewish Studies Ser
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface: The Pretext -- Prologue: The Subtext -- When Israel Was Young -- Introduction: The Text: Israel's Unparalleled Communication Across Millennia -- Gatekeepers of Jewish Ancestral Tradition -- "Fiction of Actuality": Literally True-or Fictionally True? -- Of Higher-Scalar Effects -- How Many Jewish Mysticisms? -- Interrogation of All Possible Interrogations, the Interrogation of God: Are Humans Capable of Literature? -- Notes -- Part One The Context |
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1 The God of Moses Versus the "One and All" of Egypt: From the Magic of Hypostatized Spirituality (Egypt) to the ... -- The Enigma of Ancient Israel -- Hieroglyphic Images as a Target of the Second Commandment -- "Holistic" Pictorial Communication Versus Alphabet-Based Sequential Verbal Narration -- Magical Consciousness and Cosmotheism: The God of Moses Versus the "One and All" of Egypt -- A Semiotic Perspective: Iconicity and Symbolism (Egypt) Versus Indexicality and Allegorization (Israel) -- Notes -- 2 At the Primal Scene of Communication: The Question of Israel's Esoteric Referent |
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Of Primal Scenes -- Staging a Scene -- Five Scenes, All Up On the Edenic Stage -- Scenes of Writing, Instruction, and Interpretation, Juxtaposed -- The Scene of Origins, Or Historical/Literal Truth -- At the Scene of Communication -- The Literal-Fantastic Versus the Figurative-Logical -- A Feeling of Wrongness -- Is There a Literal Reference for a Figurative Expression? -- The Literal/Nonliteral Divide and the Question of Literary Competence -- "Trajectories Not Previously Entertained in the History of the System" -- Notes -- 3 On the Notion of the Sôd: YHWH's Garden Versus the Rabbinical Orchard |
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The Unaccounted-For Mystery of Ancient Israelite Religion -- Rabbinical PaRDeS, an Orchard of the Uninitiated -- Dual-Channel Narration: Fixedness Versus Violations and Shifts in Unconscious Contexts -- Unthinkable Power and Cooperative Communication -- Notes -- Part Two The Metatext -- 4 Tracking the Sôd Through Emergence of a Complex System: Accessing the Torah's Veiled Axis of Communication -- Can a Meta-Account Approximate Initiation? -- Eschewing Reduction and Choosing Emergence -- Epistemological Blockage, Delayed Response, Delayed and Deferred Categorization |
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Intention and Agency Apropos the Sôd: Authorial Action Versus Sentiency of the Reader -- Utterance Interpretation: Epistemic Asymmetry of Speaker and Hearer -- Presentation Versus Representation: Between the Warm Flesh of the Literal Event and the Cold Skin of the Concept -- Concealed Axis of Communication and Its Traces: A Metachronic Approach -- Notes -- 5 The Sôd as Poiesis: Probing the Sôd's Poietic-Tropological Structure and Multiscalar Power Dynamics -- Positioning the Sôd Within the Pentateuch -- The Sôd's Three Continuums -- Hyletic-Noetic-Noematic Perspectives |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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The Sôd as a Poiesis: Poetic Function in Its Role as the Message |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000777383 |
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1000777383 |
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