Table of Contents

Preface 1. Female Imaging of the Torah: From Literary Metaphor to Religious Symbol 2. Circumcision, Vision of God, and Textual Interpretation: From Midrashic Trope to Mystical Symbol 3. Erasing the Erasure/Gender and the Writing of God's Body in Kabbalistic Symbolism 4. Crossing Gender Boundaries in Kabbalistic Ritual and Myth Notes Bibliography of Secondary Sources Index

About the Author

Elliot R. Wolfson is Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University. He is the author of The Book of the Pomegranate: Moses de Leon's Sefer ha-Rimmon; Through A Speculum That Shines: Vision and Imagination in Medieval Jewish Mysticism; and Along the Path: Studies in Kabbalistic Myth, Symbolism, and Hermeneutics, also published by SUNY Press.

Reviews

"A tour de force in terms of historical range, analytic boldness, textual sources, and interpretive constructions. An important contribution in every sense to Jewish thought and interpretation." - Michael Fishbane, University of Chicago "Wolfson has a knack for selecting particularly difficult texts and elucidating them for the reader." - Daniel Matt, Graduate Theological Union