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Author:

Wolfson, Elliot R.

Title:

Language, eros, being : kabbalistic hermeneutics and poetic imagination / Elliot R. Wolfson.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Fordham University Press,

Copyright Date:

2005

Description:

xxxi, 761 p. ; 26 cm.

Subject:

Cabala--History.
Masculinity of God.
Femininity of God.
Poetics.
Imagination--Judaism.--Judaism.
Hermeneutics--Judaism.--Judaism.
Kabbala.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 599-714) and indexes.

Contents:

Prologue : timeswerve/hermeneutic reversibility -- Showing the saying : laying interpretative ground -- Differentiating (in)difference : heresy, gender, and Kabbalah study -- Phallomorphic exposure : concealing soteric esotericism -- Male androgyne : engendering e/masculation -- Flesh become word : textual embodiment and poetic incarnation -- Envisioning eros : poiesis and heeding silence -- Eunuchs who keep Sabbath: erotic asceticism/ascetic eroticism -- Coming-to-head, returning-to-womb: (e)soteric gnosis and overcoming gender dimorphism.

ISBN:

9780823224197 (pbk.)
0823224198 (pbk.)
9780823224180 (hardcover)
082322418X (hardcover)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)56617287

LCCN:

2004022169

Locations:

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)