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OverviewNathaniel Berman’s Divine and Demonic in the Poetic Mythology of the Zohar: The “Other Side” of Kabbalah offers a new approach to the central work of Jewish mysticism, the Sefer Ha-Zohar (“Book of Radiance”). Berman explicates the literary techniques through which the Zohar constructs a mythology of intricately related divine and demonic personae. Drawing on classical and modern rhetorical paradigms, as well as psychoanalytical theories of the formation of subjectivity, Berman reinterprets the meaning of the Zohar’s divine and demonic personae, exploring their shared origins and their ongoing antagonisms and intimacies. Finally, he shows how the Zoharic portrayal of the demonic, the “Other Side,” contributes to reflecting on alterity of all kinds. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Nathaniel BermanPublisher: Brill Imprint: Brill Volume: 18 Weight: 0.646kg ISBN: 9789004386181ISBN 10: 9004386181 Pages: 312 Publication Date: 11 October 2018 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsPrefatory Note Acknowledgements Introduction: Poetic Mythology for a Broken World I Otherness and Brokenness II A (Very Short) Kabbalistic Primer III Overview of the Book IV A Final Introductory Note 1 Demonic Writing: The Rhetoric and Ontology of Ambivalence I Demonic Fascination, Zoharic Writing and Zohar Scholarship II Texual Proliferation and Stylistic Audacity III The Rhetoric and Ontology of Ambivalence 2 A Divided Cosmos I Introduction: Ontological Splitting, Rhetorical Parallelism and Tropic Doubling II Modeling the Other Side: Geography, Essence, Structure III Reading the Other Side: Paradoxical Textuality IV The Rhetorical Construction of Splitting I: the Seductions of Schemes V The Rhetorical Construction of Splitting II: The Ambivalence of Tropes 3 The Formation of Self and Other through Abjection and Crystallization I Introduction II The Origin of the Demonic: Theological Concern and Mythic Narrative III “Dualism,” “Duality,” and the Proto-Divine IV From Catharsis to Abjection V Ambivalences of Origins VI Divine and Demonic: A Family Affair VII Ambivalences of Intimacy VIII Ambivalences of Sustenance: “Suckling” IX Epilogue: A Theurgical Parallel 4 Impersonating the Self, Collapsing into the Abyss: The Convergence of Horror and Redemption I Impersonation: Aggressive Enclothing and Ethopoeia II The Abyss Conclusion: The Divine/Dunghill, or, the Self is the Other BibliographyReviewsAuthor InformationNathaniel Berman (JD, PhD) holds the Rahel Varnhagen Chair at Brown University, where he teaches in the Religious Studies Department. He has published extensively on law’s relationship to nationalism, colonialism and religion, as well as on Jewish mysticism. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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