Circle in the Square
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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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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
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