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Pathwings: Poetic-Philosophic Reflections on Time and Language »

Authors: Elliot R. Wolfson, Charles Stein
ISBN-13: 9781581771008, ISBN-10: 1581771002
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Barrytown/Station Hill Press, Inc.
Date Published: January 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Elliot R. Wolfson

Book Synopsis

This volume of five previously uncollected essays by Elliot R. Wolfson, a daring thinker of impeccable scholarship in Kabbalistic studies, is concerned throughout with the theme of time. Inclusion here for the first time of sixty poems by the author brings to light the relevance of Wolfson's thought to issues of poetics. A sixth essay written for this volume directly addresses the critically important relationship between his practices as scholar and poet.

	Foreword	ix
	Gazing Beneath the Veil: Apocalyptic Envisioning the End	1
	Mirror of Nature Reflected in the Symbolism of Medieval Kabbalah	23
	Poems	45
	Fore/giveness On the Way: Nesting in the Womb of Response	111
	Divine Suffering and the Hermeneutics of Reading: Philosophical Reflections on Lurianic Mythology	137
	From Sealed Book to Open Text: Time, Memory, and Narrativity in Kabbalistic Hermeneutics	185
	Postface to Pathwings	211
	Overstep/Underfoot: Envisioning the Heartland	225
	Notes	235