Steven M Wasserstrom
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 954122 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Steven M Wasserstrom |
| PRENOMES | Steven M |
| SOBRENOME | Wasserstrom |
| ASSINATURA | WASSERSTROM S M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Reed College |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 35 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1988 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2012 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Sefer Yetzira (Jewish Mystical Text)
Sefer Yetzira , The Book of Creation , is a short Hebrew‐language cosmological treatise of unknown authorship. Its central theme is the revelation of the secrets of creation.
Melancholy Jouissance and the Study of Kabbalah
These “kabbalistic musings on time, truth, and death” originated as the Taubman Lectures delivered at the University of California, Berkeley, in 2001. Wolfson summarizes them in his preface to Alef, Mem, Tau (henceforth AMT ): “The goal of my lectures was to illumine the nexus of time, truth, and death elicited from the symbolic imaginary of the Jewish esoteric tradition known by both practitioners and scholars as kabbalah” (xi). Without attempti…
Esoteric and Exoteric Aspects in Judeo-Arabic Culture . Benjamin Hary , Haggai Ben-Shammai
Further Thoughts on the Origins of Sefer yesirah
Sefer yesirah at the Time of its Emergence Despite the dozens of manuscripts, commentaries, translations, and studies devoted to it, the origins of Sefer yesirah (hereafter SY) remain intractably obscure.1 This seemingly impenetrable opacity stands in sharp contrast to its public impact, which has long tended to attract superlatives. Thus, with what came to be typical hyperbole, Louis Ginzberg asserted that [SY] had a greater influence on the dev…
Response
Journal Article Response: Final Note to Significance Seekers Get access Steven M. Wasserstrom Steven M. Wasserstrom Steven M. Wasserstrom is the the Moe and Izetta Tonkon Professor of Judaic Studies and the Humanities at Reed College, Portland OR 97202 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 69, Issue 2, June 2001, Pages 459–464, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/69…
Sense and Senselessness in Religion
Creation of the Sacred posits that ‘religion makes sense’. In so doing, it underestimates ‘the negative’. Its emphasis on the scientific basis for tradition, here called ‘scientistic traditionalism’, underestimates the role of critique and the function of dissent in the dialectics of tradition-building. For this reason, it also cannot ‘make sense’ of monotheism, which, in its many traditions, positions itself in opposition to mere biological impe…
Roman Catholicism and Political Form . Carl Schmitt , G. L. Ulmen
Judaism and Hebrew Prayer
Religion after Religion
Eranos and the of 23 Chapter 2. Toward the Origins of History of Religions: Christian Kabbalah as Inspiration and as Initiation 37 Chapter 3. Tautegorical Sublime: Gershom Scholem and Henry Corbin in Conversation 52 Chapter 4. Coincidentia Oppositorum: An Essay 67 PART II: Poetics 83 Chapter 5. On Symbols and Symbolizing 85 Chapter 6. Aesthetic Solutions 100 Chapter 7. A Rustling in the Woods: The Turn to Myth in Weimar Jewish Thought 112 PART II…
Between Muslim and Jew
This text undertakes a detailed analysis of creative symbiosis that existed between Jewish and Muslim religious thought in 8th to 10th centuries, bringing disciplinary approaches of religious studies to bear on questions that have previously been examined by historians and by specialists in Judaism and Islam. The book's thematic approach provides an exmaple of how difficult questions of influence might be opened up for broader examination. In Par…
Jewish Lore in Manichaean Cosmogony
Uses of the androgyne in the history of religions
The image of the androgyne was used by historians of religions Mircea Eliade, Henry Corbin and Gershom Scholem to refer symbolically to a totality beyond gender differences. The androgyne was identified as perfect man by Eliade, as angel by Corbin, as demon by Scholem (in his interpretation of Walter Benjamin) and as the godhead by their common ancestor Goethe. This article reflects on these uses of the androgyne as they underwrote normative assu…
Defeating Evil from Within
Veda and Torah
Between Muslim and Jew
Steven Wasserstrom undertakes a detailed analysis of the "creative symbiosis" that existed between Jewish and Muslim religious thought in the eighth through tenth centuries. Wasserstrom brings the disciplinary approaches of religious studies to bear on questions that have been examined previously by historians and by specialists in Judaism and Islam. His thematic approach provides an example of how difficult questions of influence might be opened…
Sefer Yesira and Early Islam
The 'Isawiyya Revisited
Islamicate History of Religions? Muslim Sects and Divisions
Religion after Religion
Eranos and the of 23 Chapter 2. Toward the Origins of History of Religions: Christian Kabbalah as Inspiration and as Initiation 37 Chapter 3. Tautegorical Sublime: Gershom Scholem and Henry Corbin in Conversation 52 Chapter 4. Coincidentia Oppositorum: An Essay 67 PART II: Poetics 83 Chapter 5. On Symbols and Symbolizing 85 Chapter 6. Aesthetic Solutions 100 Chapter 7. A Rustling in the Woods: The Turn to Myth in Weimar Jewish Thought 112 PART II…
Islamicate History of Religions? Muslim Sects and Divisions
Islamicate History of Religions? Muslim Sects and Divisions
The 'Isawiyya Revisited
Sefer Yesira and Early Islam
Between Muslim and Jew
Steven Wasserstrom undertakes a detailed analysis of the "creative symbiosis" that existed between Jewish and Muslim religious thought in the eighth through tenth centuries. Wasserstrom brings the disciplinary approaches of religious studies to bear on questions that have been examined previously by historians and by specialists in Judaism and Islam. His thematic approach provides an example of how difficult questions of influence might be opened…
Defeating Evil from Within
Veda and Torah
Between Muslim and Jew
This text undertakes a detailed analysis of creative symbiosis that existed between Jewish and Muslim religious thought in 8th to 10th centuries, bringing disciplinary approaches of religious studies to bear on questions that have previously been examined by historians and by specialists in Judaism and Islam. The book's thematic approach provides an exmaple of how difficult questions of influence might be opened up for broader examination. In Par…
Jewish Lore in Manichaean Cosmogony
Uses of the androgyne in the history of religions
The image of the androgyne was used by historians of religions Mircea Eliade, Henry Corbin and Gershom Scholem to refer symbolically to a totality beyond gender differences. The androgyne was identified as perfect man by Eliade, as angel by Corbin, as demon by Scholem (in his interpretation of Walter Benjamin) and as the godhead by their common ancestor Goethe. This article reflects on these uses of the androgyne as they underwrote normative assu…
Roman Catholicism and Political Form . Carl Schmitt , G. L. Ulmen
Judaism and Hebrew Prayer
Religion after Religion
Eranos and the of 23 Chapter 2. Toward the Origins of History of Religions: Christian Kabbalah as Inspiration and as Initiation 37 Chapter 3. Tautegorical Sublime: Gershom Scholem and Henry Corbin in Conversation 52 Chapter 4. Coincidentia Oppositorum: An Essay 67 PART II: Poetics 83 Chapter 5. On Symbols and Symbolizing 85 Chapter 6. Aesthetic Solutions 100 Chapter 7. A Rustling in the Woods: The Turn to Myth in Weimar Jewish Thought 112 PART II…
Sense and Senselessness in Religion
Creation of the Sacred posits that ‘religion makes sense’. In so doing, it underestimates ‘the negative’. Its emphasis on the scientific basis for tradition, here called ‘scientistic traditionalism’, underestimates the role of critique and the function of dissent in the dialectics of tradition-building. For this reason, it also cannot ‘make sense’ of monotheism, which, in its many traditions, positions itself in opposition to mere biological impe…
Response
Journal Article Response: Final Note to Significance Seekers Get access Steven M. Wasserstrom Steven M. Wasserstrom Steven M. Wasserstrom is the the Moe and Izetta Tonkon Professor of Judaic Studies and the Humanities at Reed College, Portland OR 97202 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 69, Issue 2, June 2001, Pages 459–464, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/69…
Further Thoughts on the Origins of Sefer yesirah
Sefer yesirah at the Time of its Emergence Despite the dozens of manuscripts, commentaries, translations, and studies devoted to it, the origins of Sefer yesirah (hereafter SY) remain intractably obscure.1 This seemingly impenetrable opacity stands in sharp contrast to its public impact, which has long tended to attract superlatives. Thus, with what came to be typical hyperbole, Louis Ginzberg asserted that [SY] had a greater influence on the dev…
Melancholy Jouissance and the Study of Kabbalah
These “kabbalistic musings on time, truth, and death” originated as the Taubman Lectures delivered at the University of California, Berkeley, in 2001. Wolfson summarizes them in his preface to Alef, Mem, Tau (henceforth AMT ): “The goal of my lectures was to illumine the nexus of time, truth, and death elicited from the symbolic imaginary of the Jewish esoteric tradition known by both practitioners and scholars as kabbalah” (xi). Without attempti…
Esoteric and Exoteric Aspects in Judeo-Arabic Culture . Benjamin Hary , Haggai Ben-Shammai
Sefer Yetzira (Jewish Mystical Text)
Sefer Yetzira , The Book of Creation , is a short Hebrew‐language cosmological treatise of unknown authorship. Its central theme is the revelation of the secrets of creation.
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