Enoch-Metatron Revisited: Prayers, Adjurations, and Metonymical Hermeneutics in Premodern Jewish Mystical and Magical Texts
This essay explores the construction of interpretive authority as a process of both creation and re-creation of meanings, and their self-legitimization in texts. The process of interpretation in that sense does not simply replace one set of meanings with another but rather metonymically enlarges the...
| Publié dans: | Entangled Religions |
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Ruhr-Universität Bochum
2022
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Entangled Religions
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| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Henoch-Metatron
/ Kabbale
/ Légitimation
/ Exégèse
/ Métonymie
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| RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophie de la religion AG Vie religieuse BH Judaïsme HB Ancien Testament NBC Dieu NBH Angélologie RA Théologie pastorale; théologie pratique TE Moyen Âge |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Jewish Mysticism
B Jewish Magic B Authority B compilation B Enoch-Metatron B Practical Kabbalah B metonymy |
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| Résumé: | This essay explores the construction of interpretive authority as a process of both creation and re-creation of meanings, and their self-legitimization in texts. The process of interpretation in that sense does not simply replace one set of meanings with another but rather metonymically enlarges the pool of signifiers by juxtaposing the traditional and the innovative, thus safeguarding the whole range of possible meanings of texts. The cluster of topoi relating to Enoch-Metatron, a supreme angel featuring in Jewish textual traditions, has often been employed in Jewish exegesis and magical practices in a manner that enabled the new interpretation to nest within the set of older imaginaire, the authority of which is never denied nor supplanted but rather empowers the new reading. This article explores the uses the Enoch-Metatron cluster of motifs as a textual device that served as an organizing principle of interpretive process and conferred authority to new interpretations and new compilations of texts in multiple-text handwritten volumes. The article thus foregrounds a mode of reading and refashioning of earlier Jewish textual traditions of commenting on angelic names, such as that of Enoch-Metatron. It forefronts the perspective of the producers of individual practical compilations as participants in the collective enterprise of authorship and authorization of textual units comprised in each handwritten multiple-text volume. |
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| ISSN: | 2363-6696 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Entangled Religions
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.46586/er.13.2022.9519 |