001477512 000__ 05800nam\a22009015i\4500 001477512 001__ 1477512 001477512 003__ DE-B1597 001477512 005__ 20231026034813.0 001477512 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001477512 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001477512 008__ 230103t20092009nyu\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001477512 020__ $$a9780823237852 001477512 0247_ $$a10.1515/9780823237852$$2doi 001477512 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)555172 001477512 035__ $$a(OCoLC)1099084448 001477512 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001477512 0410_ $$aeng 001477512 044__ $$anyu$$cUS-NY 001477512 072_7 $$aREL040060$$2bisacsh 001477512 08204 $$a296.1/6$$222 001477512 1001_ $$aWolfson, Elliot R., $$eauthor.$$4aut$$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 001477512 24510 $$aLanguage, Eros, Being :$$bKabbalistic Hermeneutics and Poetic Imagination /$$cElliot R. Wolfson. 001477512 264_1 $$aNew York, NY : $$bFordham University Press, $$c[2009] 001477512 264_4 $$c©2009 001477512 300__ $$a1 online resource (792 p.) 001477512 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001477512 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001477512 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001477512 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001477512 50500 $$tFrontmatter -- $$tContents -- $$tPreface -- $$tPrologue: Timeswerve/Hermeneutic Reversibility -- $$t1. Showing the Saying: Laying Interpretative Ground -- $$t2. Differentiating (In)Difference: Heresy, Gender, and Kabbalah Study -- $$t3. Phallomorphic Exposure: Concealing Soteric Esotericism -- $$t4. Male Androgyne: Engendering E/Masculation -- $$t5. Flesh Become Word: Textual Embodiment and Poetic Incarnation -- $$t6. Envisioning Eros: Poiesis and Heeding Silence -- $$t7. Eunuchs Who Keep Sabbath: Erotic Asceticism / Ascetic Eroticism -- $$t8. Coming-to-Head, Returning-to-Womb: (E)Soteric Gnosis and Overcoming Gender Dimorphism -- $$tEpilogue -- $$tNotes -- $$tBibliography -- $$tIndex of Names and Book Titles -- $$tIndex of Subjects and Terms 001477512 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001477512 520__ $$aThis long-awaited, magisterial study-an unparalleled blend of philosophy, poetry, and philology-draws on theories of sexuality, phenomenology, comparative religion, philological writings on Kabbalah, Russian formalism, Wittgenstein, Rosenzweig, William Blake, and the very physics of the time-space continuum to establish what will surely be a highwater mark in work on Kabbalah. Not only a study of texts, Language, Eros, Being is perhaps the fullest confrontation of the body in Jewish studies, if not in religious studies as a whole.Elliot R. Wolfson explores the complex gender symbolism that permeates Kabbalistic literature. Focusing on the nexus of asceticism and eroticism, he seeks to define the role of symbolic and poetically charged language in the erotically configured visionary imagination of the medieval Kabbalists. He demonstrates that the traditional Kabbalistic view of gender was a monolithic and androcentric one, in which the feminine was conceived as being derived from the masculine. He does not shrink from the negative implications of this doctrine, but seeks to make an honest acknowledgment of it as the first step toward the redemption of an ancient wisdom.Comparisons with other mystical traditions-including those in Christianity, Buddhism, and Islam-are a remarkable feature throughout the book. They will make it important well beyond Jewish studies, indeed, a must for historians of comparative religion, in particular of comparative mysticism.Praise for Elliot R. Wolfson:"Through a Speculum That Shines is an important and provocative contribution to the study of Jewish mysticism by one of the major scholars now working in this field."-Speculum 001477512 538__ $$aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. 001477512 546__ $$aIn English. 001477512 5880_ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 03. 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