From Metaphysics to Midrash: Myth, History, and the by Shaul Magid

By Shaul Magid

In From Metaphysics to Midrash, Shaul Magid explores the exegetical culture of Isaac Luria and his fans in the ancient context in 16th-century Safed, a different neighborhood that introduced practitioners of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam into shut touch with each other. Luria's scripture turned a theater within which kabbalists redrew obstacles of distinction in parts of ethnicity, gender, and the human relation to the divine. Magid investigates how cultural impacts altered scriptural exegesis of Lurianic Kabbala in its philosophical, hermeneutical, and historic views. He means that Luria and his fans have been faraway from cloistered. They used their substantial talents to weigh in on vital concerns of the day, supplying, from time to time, a few mind-blowing recommendations to perennial theological problems.

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