Acknowledgments

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgments V
3. Contents VII
4. Introduction 1
5. Part 1: Jewish Antiquity
6. Was Hellenism a Jewish Heterodoxy? 17
7. Negotiating Heresy: Belief and Identity in Early Rabbinic Literature 30
8. Revelation as Heresy: Mysticism and Elisha ben Abuyah’s Apostasy in Classic Rabbinic Literature 50
9. Part 2: Jewish Mysticism from the Middle Ages to Modernity
10. King David as the Fourth Leg of the Chariot – Gender, Identity, and Heresy 87
11. Abraham Abulafia: The Apotheosis of a Medieval Heretic in Modern Me’ah She‘arim 125
12. Part 3: Literature in Jewish Modernity
13. The Authentic Paganism of Saul Tchernikhovsky 161
14. Heretical Canines: Kafka’s “Forschungen eines Hundes” (Investigations of a Dog) 175
15. Isaac Bashevis Singer and the Poetics of Negativity 194
16. Part 4: Modern Jewish Thought
17. Spinoza, Heresy, and the Discourse of Modernity 209
18. The Dialectics of Heresy: Trauma and History in Freud 228
19. Liquid Theology and the Messianism of Life: Marrano Heresy in Benjamin and Derrida 244
20. Is the Academic Study of Judaism Heresy? 266
21. List of Contributors 291
22. Index 293