Canonization and Alterity : : Heresy in Jewish History, Thought, and Literature / / ed. by Gilad Sharvit, Willi Goetschel.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2020
• MitwirkendeR: Alter, Robert,; Bar-On, Shraga,; Bielik-Robson, Agata,; Gil, Noam,; Goetschel, Willi,; Gruen, Erich S.,; Idel, Moshe,; Kaniel, Ruth Kara-Ivanov,; Magid, Shaul,; Matanky, Eugene D.,; Schremer, Adiel,; Sharvit, Gilad,; Suchoff, David,
• HerausgeberIn: Goetschel, Willi,; Sharvit, Gilad,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts , 14
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (VIII, 297 p.)

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, 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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part 1: Jewish Antiquity -- 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 -- Part 2: Jewish Mysticism from the Middle Ages to Modernity -- 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 -- Part 3: Literature in Jewish Modernity -- 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 -- Part 4: Modern Jewish Thought -- 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