Kafka and kabbalah /
Is a study of Kafka's thinking and writing from strictly a religious point of view justified? He is, after all, considered one of the pillars of modernism. As such, Kafka's well-established deploring of the inadequacy of his own Jewish upbringing only fuels the generally held belief that h...
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New York :
Continuum,
1994
New York : 1994 |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Kafka and Judaism
- 2. The Trial and the Tradition of the Gatekeeper in the Kabbalah
- 3. When and How the Celestial Court Functions
- 4. The Ecstatic Ascent to Heaven
- 5. "No One Else Could Enter Here, for This Door Was Meant for You Alone"
- 6. The Gatekeeper Tradition as It Relates to the Description of the Court
- 7. The Status of Man vis-a-vis the Officers of the Court
- 8. The Human Face as a Reflection of Divine Judgment
- 9. The Kabbalistic Depiction of the Celestial Courts - History as Judgment
- 10. The Incursion of Judgment into Human Life - Disease and Dreams
- 11. "Women Have a Great Power" - The Feminine Element in the Hierarchies of the Court
- 12. The Judgment Theme in Eastern Jewish Folktales - Kabbalah as Narrative
- 13. The Animal Stories
- 14. Divine Judgment via the Word - "I Now Sentence You to Death by Drowning"
- 15. Language and Reality - Writing as a Form of Prayer
- 16. "Josephine the Singer; or, the Mouse People"
- 1 Kafka and Judaism
- 2. The Trial and the Tradition of the Gatekeeper in the Kabbalah
- 3. When and How the Celestial Court Functions
- 4. The Ecstatic Ascent to Heaven
- 5. "No One Else Could Enter Here, for This Door Was Meant for You Alone"
- 6. The Gatekeeper Tradition as It Relates to the Description of the Court
- 7. The Status of Man vis-a-vis the Officers of the Court
- 8. The Human Face as a Reflection of Divine Judgment
- 9. The Kabbalistic Depiction of the Celestial Courts
- History as Judgment
- 10. The Incursion of Judgment into Human Life
- Disease and Dreams
- 11. "Women Have a Great Power"
- The Feminine Element in the Hierarchies of the Court
- 12. The Judgment Theme in Eastern Jewish Folktales
- Kabbalah as Narrative
- 13. The Animal Stories
- 14. Divine Judgment via the Word
- "I Now Sentence You to Death by Drowning"
- 15. Language and Reality
- Writing as a Form of Prayer
- 16. "Josephine the Singer; or, the Mouse People"
- 17. The Aphorisms
- between the Two Trees of Paradise
- 18. Kafka Without End
- Yet Another Interpretation?
- 17. The Aphorisms - between the Two Trees of Paradise
- 18. Kafka Without End - Yet Another Interpretation?