Description |
1 online resource (305 pages) |
Series |
Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology |
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Raphael Patai series in Jewish folklore and anthropology.
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Contents |
Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1. Voices Rising from Safed; Wonderful, Wretched Safed; Voices from Outside; Discord and Strife; Halakhists and Kabbalists; Chapter 2. The Myth and Its Disenchantment; Of Oxen and Beards; Spirits, Reincarnations, and Other Visions; From the Beards of the West to the Sidelocks of the East; The Procession of the Dead; "Toro muerto, vaca es" (A Dead Ox Is a Cow); Chapter 3. In Fields and Wilderness; Safed Stories as Local Legends; The Axis of the World; The Galilee as a Semiotic Space; A World Full of Souls |
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A Mythical SpaceThe Place as an Ideal and a Rupture; Chapter 4. And He Woke and It Was a Dream; The Dream and the Fairy Tale; Shmuel Vital, Master of Dreams; Hayyim Vital's Nightmarish Dreams; The Enchanted Garden; Turning Distress into Legend; Chapter 5. Sin Crouches at the Door; From Birth to Death; Nothing Is Hidden from His Eyes; Reality Is Unintelligible, but Its Signs Are Open; From the Erotic to the Demonic; A Spirit Entered Her; Chapter 6. And He Had Knowledge About Everyone; Our Own Eyes Saw Terrifying Things; Luria Exorcises a Spirit; The Hidden World |
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Concealment, Mystery, and CharismaBetween Visible and Invisible; Were All the Seas Ink and All the Sky Parchment; Chapter 7. Life and Legend; Inconsistency Is in the Eye of the Beholder; Existential Tension Resolves Opposites; Family or Messiah?; The Messianic Age Is Here and Now; The Legend Speaks; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
Summary |
Jewish life through the legends created and narrated in Safed in the sixteenth century |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Jewish folk literature -- History and criticism
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Jewish folk literature
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Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Watzman, Haim
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ISBN |
9780814341117 |
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081434111X |
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