Canonization and alterity: heresy in Jewish history, thought, and literature

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- Was Hellenism a Jewish Heterodoxy? -- Negotiating Heresy: Belief and Identity in Early Rabbinic Literature -- Revelation as Heresy: Mysticism and Elisha ben Abuyah’s Apostasy in Classic Rabbinic Literature -- King David as the Fourth Leg...

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Published in:Perspectives on Jewish texts and contexts
Contributors: Sharviṭ, Gilʿad 1975- (Editor) ; Goetschel, Willi 1958- (Editor)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Berlin Boston De Gruyter [2020]
In: Perspectives on Jewish texts and contexts (14)
Series/Journal:Perspectives on Jewish texts and contexts 14
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Jewish theology / Jewish philosophy / Heresy / History
Further subjects:B Conference program 2019 (Tel Aviv)
B LITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish
B Jewish heresies
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Erscheint auch als: 9783110668179
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Summary:Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- Was Hellenism a Jewish Heterodoxy? -- Negotiating Heresy: Belief and Identity in Early Rabbinic Literature -- Revelation as Heresy: Mysticism and Elisha ben Abuyah’s Apostasy in Classic Rabbinic Literature -- King David as the Fourth Leg of the Chariot – Gender, Identity, and Heresy -- Abraham Abulafia: The Apotheosis of a Medieval Heretic in Modern Me’ah She‘arim -- The Authentic Paganism of Saul Tchernikhovsky -- Heretical Canines: Kafka’s “Forschungen eines Hundes” (Investigations of a Dog) -- Isaac Bashevis Singer and the Poetics of Negativity -- Spinoza, Heresy, and the Discourse of Modernity -- The Dialectics of Heresy: Trauma and History in Freud -- Liquid Theology and the Messianism of Life: Marrano Heresy in Benjamin and Derrida -- Is the Academic Study of Judaism Heresy? -- List of Contributors -- Index
This volume offers an examination of varied forms of expressions of heresy in Jewish history, thought and literature. Contributions explore the formative role of the figure of the heretic and of heretic thought in the development of the Jewish traditions from antiquity to the 20th century. Chapters explore the role of heresy in the Hellenic period and Rabbinic literature; the significance of heresy to Kabbalah, and the critical and often formative importance the challenge of heresy plays for modern thinkers such as Spinoza, Freud, Kafka, and Derrida, and literary figures such as Kafka, Tchernikhovsky, and I.B. Singer. Examining heresy as a boundary issue constitutive for the formation of Jewish tradition, this book contributes to a better understanding of the significance of the figure of the heretic for tradition more generally
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:3110671581
Access:Restricted Access
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1515/9783110671582