Jewish Culture between Canon and Heresy

Introduction: Between Canon and Counterhistory

1. The God with Breasts: El Shaddai in the Bible

2. Korah in the Midrash: The Hairless Heretic as Hero

3. Counterhistory and Jewish Polemics against Christianity: The Sefer Toldot Yeshu and the Sefer Zerubavel

4. "The Torah Speaks the Language of Human Beings": Abraham Ibn Ezra's Radical Interpretation of the Bible

5. Between Melancholy and a Broken Heart: A Note on Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav's Depression

6. The Kabbalah in Nachman Krochmal's Philosophy of History

7. Masochism and Philosemitism: The Strange Case of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

8. Historical Heresies and Modern Jewish Identity

9. Shabbtai Zvi and the Seductions of Jewish Orientalism

10. Leo Strauss: The Philosopher as Weimar Jew

11. Arendt in Jerusalem: Hannah Arendt on the Eichmann Trial

12. Gershom Scholem's "Ten Unhistorical Aphorisms on the Kabbalah": Text and Commentary

13. The Threat of Messianism: An Interview with Gershom Scholem (August 14, 1980)

14. Mysticism and Politics in Modern Israel: The Messianic Ideology of Abraham Isaac Ha-Cohen Kook

15. The End of Enlightenment?

Epilogue: By the Waters of San Francisco: A Partial Autobiography

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Jewish culture; canon; heresy; Bible; midrash; biblical exegesis; modern Jewish thought; modern Jewish literature; Zionism