Open Secret
Postmessianic Messianism and the Mystical Revision of Menahem Mendel Schneerson
1st Edition
Published on 21. October 2009
472 pages
978-0-231-52031-7 (ISBN)
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Elliot R. Wolfson
Open Secret
Postmessianic Messianism and the Mystical Revision of Mena?em Mendel Schneerson
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Columbia University Press
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Elliot R. Wolfson
Open Secret
Postmessianic Messianism and the Mystical Revision of Mena?em Mendel Schneerson
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10/2009
Columbia University Press
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Elliot R. Wolfson is the Abraham Lieberman Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Fellow of the American Academy of Jewish Research. He is the author of numerous essays and books, including Through a Speculum that Shines: Vision and Imagination in Medieval Jewish Mysticism, which was awarded the National Jewish Book Award for Scholarship and the AAR Award for Excellence in Historical Studies; Along the Path: Studies in Kabbalistic Myth, Symbolism, and Hermeneutics; Circle in the Square: Studies in the Use of Gender in Kabbalistic Symbolism; Abraham Abulafia-Kabbalist and Prophet: Hermeneutics, Theosophy, and Theurgy; Language, Eros, Being: Kabbalistic Hermeneutics and Poetic Imagination, which was awarded the National Jewish Book Award in Scholarship; Alef, Mem, Tau: Kabbalistic Musings on Time, Truth, and Death; Venturing Beyond Law and Morality in Kabbalistic Mysticism; and Luminal Darkness: Imaginal Gleanings From Zoharic Literature.
Content
Preface
Note on the Transliteration
Introduction: Behind the Veil Unveiled
1. Concealing the Concealment: The Politics of the Esoteric
2. A/voiding Place: Apophatic Embodiment
3. Semiotic Transubstantiation of the Somatic
4. Messianic Torah: Hypernomian Transvaluation
5. Female Encircles Male: Gender Transposition
6. Apocalyptic Crossing: Beyond the (Non)Jewish Other
Postface: In an Instant-Advent of the (Non)event
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Note on the Transliteration
Introduction: Behind the Veil Unveiled
1. Concealing the Concealment: The Politics of the Esoteric
2. A/voiding Place: Apophatic Embodiment
3. Semiotic Transubstantiation of the Somatic
4. Messianic Torah: Hypernomian Transvaluation
5. Female Encircles Male: Gender Transposition
6. Apocalyptic Crossing: Beyond the (Non)Jewish Other
Postface: In an Instant-Advent of the (Non)event
Notes
Bibliography
Index
