Language, Eros, Being: Kabbalistic Hermeneutics and Poetic Imagination

Language, Eros, Being: Kabbalistic Hermeneutics and Poetic Imagination

by ElliotR.Wolfson (Author)

Synopsis

Explores the complex gender symbolism that permeates Kabbalistic literature. Focusing on the nexus of asceticism and eroticism, the author seeks to define the role of symbolic and poetically charged language in the erotically configured visionary imagination of the medieval Kabbalists.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 792
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 31 Oct 2004

ISBN 10: 0823224198
ISBN 13: 9780823224197