Open Secret: Postmessianic Messianism and the Mystical Revision of Menahem Mendel Schneerson

Elliot R. Wolfson

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Paper, 472 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14631-9
$26.50 / £18.50

October, 2009
Cloth, 472 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14630-2
$35.00 / £24.00

Preface

Note on the Transliteration

Introduction: Behind the Veil Unveiled

1. Concealing the Concealment: The Politics of the Esoteric

2. A/voiding Place: Apophatic Embodiment

3. Semiotic Transubstantiation of the Somatic

4. Messianic Torah: Hypernomian Transvaluation

5. Female Encircles Male: Gender Transposition

6. Apocalyptic Crossing: Beyond the (Non)Jewish Other

Postface: In an Instant—Advent of the (Non)event

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Related Subjects

• Judaism

About the Author

Elliot R. Wolfson is the Abraham Lieberman Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a Fellow of the American Academy of Jewish Research. He is the author of numerous essays and books, including Through a Speculum that Shines: Vision and Imagination in Medieval Jewish Mysticism, which was awarded the National Jewish Book Award for Scholarship and the AAR Award for Excellence in Historical Studies; Along the Path: Studies in Kabbalistic Myth, Symbolism, and Hermeneutics; Circle in the Square: Studies in the Use of Gender in Kabbalistic Symbolism; Abraham Abulafia-Kabbalist and Prophet: Hermeneutics, Theosophy, and Theurgy; Language, Eros, Being: Kabbalistic Hermeneutics and Poetic Imagination, which was awarded the National Jewish Book Award in Scholarship; Alef, Mem, Tau: Kabbalistic Musings on Time, Truth, and Death; Venturing Beyond Law and Morality in Kabbalistic Mysticism; and Luminal Darkness: Imaginal Gleanings From Zoharic Literature.

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