Language, eros, being : kabbalistic hermeneutics and poetic imagination
Explores the complex gender symbolism that permeates Kabbalistic literature. Focusing on the nexus of asceticism and eroticism, the author seeks to define the role of symbolic and poetically charged language in the erotically configured visionary imagination of the medieval Kabbalists.
History
xxxi, 761 p. ; 26 cm.
9780823224180, 9780823224197, 082322418X, 0823224198
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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