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This volume deals with the female dynasty of the House of David and
its influence on the Jewish Messianic Myth. It provides a missing
link in the chain of research on the topic of messianism and
contributes to the understanding of the connection between female
transgression and redemption, from the Bible through Rabbinic
literature until the Zohar. The discussion of the centrality of the
mother image in Judeo-Christian culture and the parallels between
the appearance of Mary in the Gospels and the Davidic Mothers in
the Hebrew Bible, stresses mutual representations of ""the mother
of the messiah"" in Christian and Jewish imaginaire. Through the
prism of gender studies and by stressing questions of femininity,
motherhood and sexuality, the subject appears in a new light. This
research highlights the importance of intertwining Jewish literary
study with comparative religion and gender theories, enabling the
process of filling in the 'mythic gaps' in classical Jewish
sources. The book won the Pines, Lakritz and Warburg awards.
This volume deals with the female dynasty of the House of David and
its influence on the Jewish Messianic Myth. It provides a missing
link in the chain of research on the topic of messianism and
contributes to the understanding of the connection between female
transgression and redemption, from the Bible through Rabbinic
literature until the Zohar. The discussion of the centrality of the
mother image in Judeo-Christian culture and the parallels between
the appearance of Mary in the Gospels and the Davidic Mothers in
the Hebrew Bible, stresses mutual representations of ""the mother
of the messiah"" in Christian and Jewish imaginaire. Through the
prism of gender studies and by stressing questions of femininity,
motherhood and sexuality, the subject appears in a new light. This
research highlights the importance of intertwining Jewish literary
study with comparative religion and gender theories, enabling the
process of filling in the 'mythic gaps' in classical Jewish
sources. The book won the Pines, Lakritz and Warburg awards.
Birth in Kabbalah and Psychoanalysis examines the centrality of
"birth" in Jewish literature, gender theory, and psychoanalysis,
thus challenging the centrality of death in Western culture and
existential philosophy. In this groundbreaking study, Ruth
Kara-Ivanov Kaniel discuss similarities between Biblical,
Midrashic, Kabbalistic, and Hasidic perceptions of birth, as well
as its place in contemporary cultural and psychoanalytic discourse.
In addition, this study shows how birth functions as a vital
metaphor that has been foundational to art, philosophy, religion,
and literature. Medieval Kabbalistic literature compared human
birth to divine emanation, and presented human sexuality and
procreation as a reflection of the sefirotic structure of the
Godhead - an attempt, Kaniel claims, to marginalize the fear of
death by linking the humane and divine acts of birth. This book
sheds new light on the image of God as the "Great Mother" and the
crucial role of the Shekhinah as a cosmic womb. Birth in Kabbalah
and Psychoanalysis won the Gorgias Prize and garnered significant
appreciation from psychoanalytic therapists in clinical practice
dealing with birth trauma, postpartum depression, and in early
infancy distress.
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