From Metaphysics to Midrash
Myth, History, and the Interpretation of Scripture in Lurianic Kabbala (Indiana Studies in Biblical Literature)
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Word Count
90,000 words, Guess
Page Count
360 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Internet Archivefrommetaphys_magi_2008_000_8574344
- ISBN-100253350883
- ISBN-139780253350886
- Goodreads2282322
- Library of Congress Control Number2007040650
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- OCLC Control Number173748800
- Better World Books9780253350886
- Open LibraryOL10228960M
Classifications
- LCCBM525.L835M34 2008
- LCCBM525.L835 M34 2008
Description
"In From Metaphysics to Midrash, Shaul Magid explores the exegetical tradition of Isaac Luria and his followers within the historical context of sixteenth-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."--BOOK JACKET.
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