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From Metaphysics to Midrash: Myth, History, and the Interpretation of Scripture in Lurianic Kabbala Hardback - 2008

by Shaul Magid

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In From Metaphysics to Midrash, Shaul Magid explores the exegetical tradition of Isaac Luria and his followers within the historical context in 16th-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.

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  • Title From Metaphysics to Midrash: Myth, History, and the Interpretation of Scripture in Lurianic Kabbala
  • Author Shaul Magid
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition.
  • Pages 368
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Indiana University Press, USA
  • Publication date 2008-07-09
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780253350886 / 0253350883
  • Weight 1.41 lbs (0.64 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.28 x 6.31 x 1.01 in (23.57 x 16.03 x 2.57 cm)
  • Themes
    • Religious Orientation: Christian
    • Religious Orientation: Jewish
  • Category Religion - Judaism
  • Library of Congress subjects Metaphysics, Cabala - History
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2007040650
  • Dewey Decimal Code 222.106

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  • Chronicle of Higher Education, 11/07/2008, Page 29

About the author

Shaul Magid is Jay and Jeannie Schottenstein Chair in Jewish Studies and Professor in Religious Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington.

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