From metaphysics to midrash :myth, history, and the interpretation of Scripture in Lurianic Kabbala
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Bloomington
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Indiana University Press
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Indiana studies in biblical literature
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Includes bibliographical references )p. ]321[-345( and index
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Shaul Magid
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Kabbala, new historicism, and the question of boundaries -- The Lurianic myth: a playbill -- Genesis: "And Adam's sin was )very( great": original sin in Lurianic exegesis -- Exodus: The "other" Israel: the erev rav )mixed multitude( as conversos -- Leviticus: The sin of becoming a woman: male homosexuality and the castration complex -- Numbers: Balaam, Moses, and the prophecy of the "other": a Lurianic vision for the erasure of difference -- Deuteronomy: the human and/as God: divine incarnation and the "image of God"