Language, eros, being : kabbalistic hermeneutics and poetic imagination /

Not only a study of texts, 'Language, Eros, Being' explores the complex gender symbolism that permeates Kabbalistic literature.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wolfson, Elliot R. (Author)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: New York : Fordham University Press 2005.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt13x01nw
Table of 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.