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Studies in the Use of Gender in Kabbalistic Symbolism
In these SUNY essays Elliot Wolfson analyses gender symbolism in Kabbalah, arguing that the feminine is often reabsorbed into an androgynous masculine ideal. He discusses circumcision, the eroticism of the Shekhinah and the symbolism of the divine phallus. Scholarly and provocative, it suits readers interested in gender and theology in Jewish mysticism. Its arguments remain much debated.
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