The Slayers of Moses : The Emergence of Rabbinic Interpretation in Modern Literary Theory.

Front Matter -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Table of Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Methodological Preface -- Note to the Reader -- Content -- HISTORICAL BACKGROUND -- Greek Philosophy and the Overcoming of the Word -- Plato and Language: The Cratylus -- Aristotle and the Problems of Predication -- Aristotle: Words and Things, Rhetoric vs. Philosophy -- The Contemporary Critique: Derrida and Ricoeur -- The Model of Metaphor -- Rabbinic Thought: The Divinity of the Text -- The Bible and the Greeks -- The Text -- The Development of the Oral Law -- Some Philosophic Aspects of the Rabbinic Interpretive System -- Kat Ve-Chomer -- The Other Twelve Middot: The Relations of General and Particular -- Midrash -- Metaphor and Metonymy in Interpretation -- Escape from Textuality: The Fulfiller of Signs -- The Letter and the Spirit -- Philo -- Origen -- The Logos and the Letter -- Unity, Trinity Literal, Figurative -- Augustine -- Augustine's Theory of Signs -- THE SLAYERS OF MOSES -- Prologue:The Book of Books and the Book of Nature -- Solomon-Sigmund, the Son of Jakob -- Undoing Moses -- Heretic Hermeneutics: Re-writing Origins -- Freud's Methodology: New Arrangements, Hidden Gaps -- The Hybrid Science -- Solomon-Sigmund, the Son of Jakob -- Undoing Moses -- Heretic Hermeneutics: Re-writing Origins -- Freud's Methodology: New Arrangements, Hidden Gaps -- The Hybrid Science -- The Analyst as Scribe: Jacques Lacan and the Return of the Father's Name -- Reb Derrida's Scripture -- Derrida vs. Lacan -- The Curtained Torah -- To Love the Torah More than God -- The Critic as Kabbalist: Harold Bloom and the Heretic Hermeneutic -- From the Visionary to the Revisionary Company -- The Revisionary Ratios -- The Revisionary Warfare of Christian Exegesis.

The Conflict of Literary Traditions: Genteel Classical versus Judaic Antithetical -- Satanic Criticism -- Scholem, Kabbalah, and Heresy -- Revelation and Tradition -- Revisionary Blindness -- The Theory of Literary Influence and Kabbalistic Terminology: Sejirot, Behinot, Tzimtzum -- Bloom's Map of Misreading -- Analogical Transformation -- Back Matter -- Appendix -- Rabbi lshnwel's Rules Four Through Eleven: General and Particular -- Glossary -- Notes -- Methodological Preface -- 1. Greek Philosophy and the Overcoming of the Word -- 2. Rabbinic Thought: The Divinity of the Text -- 3. Some Philosophic Aspects of the Rabbinic Interpretive System -- 4. Escape from Textuality: The Fulfiller of Signs -- Prologue: The Book of Books and the Book of Nature -- 5. Solomon-Sigmund, the Son of Jakob -- 6. The Analyst as Scribe: Jacques Lacan and the Return of the Father's Name -- 7. Reb Derrida's Scripture -- 8. The Critic as Kabbalist: Harold Bloom and the Heretic Hermeneutic -- Selected Bibliography -- Index.

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