In From Metaphysics to Midrash, Shaul Magid explores the
exegetical tradition of Isaac Luria and his followers within the
historical context in 16th-century Safed, a unique community that
brought practitioners of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam into
close contact with one another. Luria's scripture became a theater
in which kabbalists redrew boundaries of difference in areas of
ethnicity, gender, and the human relation to the divine. Magid
investigates how cultural influences altered scriptural exegesis of
Lurianic Kabbala in its philosophical, hermeneutical, and
historical perspectives. He suggests that Luria and his followers
were far from cloistered. They used their considerable skills to
weigh in on important matters of the day, offering, at times, some
surprising solutions to perennial theological problems.
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