{"product_id":"holiness-and-transgression-mothers-of-the-messiah-in-the-jewish-myth-9781618115607","title":"Holiness and Transgression: Mothers of the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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 \u003ci\u003eimaginaire\u003c\/i\u003e. 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Ruth Kara-Ivanov Kaniel's careful handling of discussions spanning nearly two thousand years of Jewish literary output is highly original and is accomplished by excellent knowledge of the relevant texts and of the research literature, Gender Studies and Myth Theory. The overall picture that emerged from this book is an innovation within the field of Jewish Thought … a major contribution to the understanding of the Messianic idea and its development in certain branches of the Jewish world, as well as to the understanding of the importance of the role of women in the history of the Messiah.\" -- Moshe Idel, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem\u003cbr\u003e“This is a fascinating history of women’s transgressive sexuality, which features time and again in the biblical, rabbinic and kabbalistic sources, where it is construed as the crucial and most productive element of the redemptive process, giving rise to the famously irregular maternal genealogy of the Jewish Messiah in each one of his incarnations, right up to and including Jesus Christ.” -- Ada Rapoport-Albert, Professor of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University College London\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart One: Messianic Mothers in the Bible\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRuth, Tamar, and Lot’s Daughters\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Chapter One: Feminine Genealogy and the Lineage of the House of David\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Two Genealogical Lists at the Conclusion of the Book of Ruth\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Feminine Genealogical List—Exclusion or Redundancy?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The Blessing at the Gate\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike Rachel and Like Leah\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The Mothers of the Davidic Dynasty in Chronicles\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The Foreign Women of the House of David\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Dynasticism, Eros, and Messianism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFeminine Dominance and Antinomianism in the “J” Source\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Chapter Two: The Type-Scene of “The Birth of the Messianic Hero”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 1. The Background: The Appearance of the Foreign Woman\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 2. The Crisis—Human and Cosmic Traumatizing Circumstances\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 3. The Obstacle—The Sexual Prohibition: Incest, Harlotry, and Seduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4. The Messianic Fathers—The Symbolism of the Father Figure\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5. The Secret and Seductive Means—Wine, Masquerading, and Concealment\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6. The Danger—The Men’s Unawareness and the Woman’s Endangerment Post-Seduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 7. The Birth—From Virginity to Motherhood\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 8. The Human Condemnation—Breaking of Ties and the Disappearance of Mother and Father Figures\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 9. The Divine Vindication—The “Providential Type-Scene” and Genealogical Seal \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Motif of Doubleness in the Stories of the Davidic Mothers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Sexuality and Messianism \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Development and Tempering of the Type-Scene—What Do the Foremothers Bequeath to Their Daughters?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Part Two: The Messianic Mother in Rabbinic Literature—Sororal Love and “Ethics of Redemption” \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Three: David’s Mother(s) in Yalkut ha-Makhiri \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSon of the Hated and Son of the Loved—The Holy Deception\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Absent Mother and the Excessive Mother\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConnected Midrashim between Davidic Mothers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Four: Gedolah Aveirah Lishmah—From Rabbinic Literature to the Messianic Teachings of R. Moses Ḥayyim Luzzatto\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The Background of the Sugiyah—Ḥeruta’s Story and “The Revolution of Intention”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Aveirah Lishmah and Devar Mitzvah\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAveirah Lishmah according to R. Moses Ḥayyim Luzzatto\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWomen as the Other: Gender, Language, and Politics \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart Three: The Messianic Mother in the Zoharic Literature\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Mystery of the Composition of the Zohar and its Character\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The Messianic Idea in the Zoharic Literature \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Five: Lot’s Daughters and the Zoharic “Ṭiqla”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The Paradoxicality of Incestuous Relations in Cultural and Psychoanalytic Studies \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIncestual Relations in a Gender Perspective\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The Primal Story and “Primal Scene”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Ammon and Moab—Split Attitudes\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The First Appearance of the Ṭiqla: Spain of the Thirteenth Century\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Zohar Parashat Va-Yera—the Story of Lot’s Daughters \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Origins of the Ṭiqla in the Greek Water-Wheel of “Antiliya”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Ṭiqla in the Zohar—Five Axes of Meaning\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Conclusion\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Chapter Six: The Burning Face of the Shekhinah—Tamar in Zohar Aḥrei Mot \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Passage’s Framework—An Opening to Supernal Mysteries\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The Burning Image—The Smoldering Shekhinah\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Petaḥ Einayim—From Rabbinic Midrash to Zoharic Exegesis\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Tamar’s story and the Motif of Fire in Zohar Aḥrei Mot—A Mirror to the World of the Kabbalists\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Seven: “And She Uncovered His Feet”—The Exilic and Redemptive Journey of the Shekhinah\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The Book of Ruth and the Threshing Floor Scene—From the Bible to Second Temple Literature\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Ruth in the Zohar—“And She Uncovered His Feet”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The Personal Stance—Ruth as the Messiah’s Mother and an Actual and Active Character in the Zohar\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Ruth and Tamar—The Shared Model\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Allegorical Position—Zohar Ruth and Tiqqunei Zohar\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The Distant Redeemer, The Close Redeemer—Tiqqunei Zohar in Contrast to Zohar Ruth\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Naomi and Ruth as Binah and Malkhut\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e An Existentialist Reading—The Shekhinah is the Soul\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The Zohar in Contrast to the Tiqqunim and Zohar Ruth—The Personalistic Model and the Allegorical Model\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Conclusion—Gender Reversal and Redemption Poetics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Epilogue: The Messianic Mother in Judaism and Christianity\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The Mother of the Messiah in the Bible and in Early Christianity\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e A Messiah by Virtue of His Mothers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChristian Traditions and Jewish Rabbinic Literature\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e A) Miraculous Conception: “A Seed That Comes from Another Place”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e B) Sexuality and Virginity: “All Those Women of the House of Rabbi Who Crushed with Their Finger”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e D) Seduction, Trauma and Relationships\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e E) Late Subversion in a Medieval Midrash\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e F) The Messianic Mother as a Virgin and Harlot—Influences on the Perception of the Shekhinah in the Zohar\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Bibliography\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Academic Studies Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359752323415,"sku":"9781618115607","price":66.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781618115607.jpg?v=1754125603","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/holiness-and-transgression-mothers-of-the-messiah-in-the-jewish-myth-9781618115607","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}