This book deals with aspects of the gender imaging of God in a variety of medieval kabbalistic sources. It provides the key to understanding the phenomenological structures of mystical experience as well as the thematic correlation of esotericism and eroticism that is central to the kabbalah. The author examines the role of gender utilizing current feminist studies and cultural anthropology. He explores the themes of the feminization of the Torah, the correlation of circumcision and vision of God, the phallocentric understanding of divine creation as a process of inscription mythologized as an act of sexual self-gratification, and the phenomenon of gender-crossing in kabbalistic myth and ritual. Collectively, the studies explore in great depth the androcentric phallocentrism that is characteristic of medieval Jewish mysticism.
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Preface
1. Female Imaging of the Torah: From Literary Metaphor to Religious Symbol
2. Circumcision, Vision of God, and Textual Interpretation: From Midrashic Trope to Mystical Symbol
3. Erasing the Erasure/Gender and the Writing of God’s Body in Kabbalistic Symbolism
4. Crossing Gender Boundaries in Kabbalistic Ritual and Myth
Notes
Bibliography of Secondary Sources
Index
Sobre el autor
Elliot R. Wolfson is Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University. He is the author of
The Book of the Pomegranate: Moses de León’s Sefer ha-Rimmon; Through A Speculum That Shines: Vision and Imagination in Medieval Jewish Mysticism; and
Along the Path: Studies in Kabbalistic Myth, Symbolism, and Hermeneutics, also published by SUNY Press.
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