Chapter 4 “The Womb Is a Tomb”: The Imagery of the Uterus and Female Guilt and Death

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements VII
3. Contents IX
4. Introduction 1
5. Chapter 1 The Existentialism of Birth 11
6. Chapter 2 The Theology and Ethics of Birth 46
7. Chapter 3 The Caesura of Birth 68
8. Chapter 4 “The Womb Is a Tomb”: The Imagery of the Uterus and Female Guilt and Death 96
9. Chapter 5 The Double Beginning of the Zohar 127
10. Chapter 6 Longing for the Source 146
11. Chapter 7 Birth in Lurianic Kabbalah 180
12. Chapter 8 Redemption as Birth, Birth as Redemption 195
13. Epilogue 219
14. Bibliography 223
15. Index 241