TY  - BOOK
AU  - Berman,Nathaniel
TI  - Divine and demonic in the poetic mythology of the Zohar: the "other side" of Kabbalah 
T2  - IJS Studies in Judaica
SN  - 9789004386198
AV  - BM525.A59 B48 2018
U1  - 296.1/62 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Leiden Boston
PB  - BRILL
KW  - Zohar
KW  - Cábala
KW  - Jewish mythology
KW  - Demonology
N1  - This monograph is not a conference volume per publisher; Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-299) and index; Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Prefatory Note: Bibliography, Footnotes, Principal Texts, Translations, and Transliterations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Poetic Mythology for a Broken World -- Demonic Writing: the Rhetoric and Ontology of Ambivalence -- A Divided Cosmos -- The Formation of Self and Other through Abjection and Crystallization -- Impersonating the Self, Collapsing into the Abyss: the Convergence of Horror and Redemption -- Conclusion: the Divine/Dunghill, or, the Self Is the Other -- Back Matter -- Bibliography -- Index
N2  - Nathaniel 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004386198
ER  -