Holiness and Transgression - Ruth Kara-Ivanov Kaniel

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Résumé :
This volume explores 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 author examines the centrality of the mother image in Judeo-Christan culture and the parallels between the figure of Mary in the Gospels and the Davidic mothers in Hebrew Scripture, revealing reciprocal representations of the mother of the Messiah in Christian and Jewish imaginaire. Deploying theories in gender studies, psychoanalysis, and comparative religion, this study offers a uniquely composite approach the mythic gaps in classic Jewish sources. The book won the Pines, Lakritz, and Warburg awards.

Biographie:
Ruth Kara Ivanov Kaniel is a lecturer at the Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies and at the Hebrew University, and is a research fellow at the Tel-Aviv Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis and at the Shalom Hartman Institute. She is also the head of a Research Group at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. Her current research deals with intersections between Jewish mythology, mysticism, gender and psychoanalysis.

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Acknowledgments

Translator's Note

Introduction

Part One - Messianic Mothers in the Bible

Chapter One: Feminine Genealogy and the Lineage of the House of David

Chapter Two: The Type-Scene of The Birth of the Messianic Hero

Part Two - The Messianic Mother in Rabbinic Literature - Sororal Love and Ethics of Redemption

Chapter Three: David's Mother(s) in Yalkut ha-Makhiri

Chapter Four: Gedolah Aveirah Lishmah - From Rabbinic Literature to the Messianic Teachings of R. Moses ?ayyim Luzzatto

Part Three - The Messianic Mother in the Zoharic Literature

Chapter Five: Lot's Daughters and the Zoharic ?iqla

Chapter Six: The Burning Face of the Shekhinah - Tamar in Zohar A?rei Mot

Chapter Seven: The Shekhinah's Exile and Redemption in Ruth and Naomi's Journey

Conclusion - Gender Reversal and Redemption Poetics

Epilogue - The Messianic Mother in Judaism and Christianity

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