Jewish Culture between Canon and Heresy

Contents\nPreface and Acknowledgments\nINTRODUCTION Between Canon and Counterhistory\nPart One COUNTERTRADITIONS WITHIN THE TRADITION\nCHAPTER 1 The God with Breasts: El Shaddai in the Bible\nCHAPTER 2 Korah in the Midrash: The Hairless Heretic as Hero\nCHAPTER 3 Counterhistory and Jewish Polemics against Christianity: The Sefer Toldot Yeshu and the Sefer Zerubavel\nCHAPTER 4 “The Torah Speaks the Language of Human Beings” Abraham Ibn Ezra’s Radical Interpretation of the Bible\nCHAPTER 5 Between Melancholy and a Broken Heart: A Note on Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav’s Depression\nPart Two AMBIVALENT MODERNITY\nCHAPTER 6 The Kabbalah in Nachman Krochmal’s Philosophy of History\nCHAPTER 7 Masochism and Philosemitism: The Strange Case of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch\nCHAPTER 8 Historical Heresies and Modern Jewish Identity\nCHAPTER 9 Shabbtai Zvi and the Seductions of Jewish Orientalism\nPart three WEIMAR ANTINOMIANS\nCHAPTER 10 Leo Strauss: The Philosopher as Weimar Jew\nCHAPTER 11 Arendt in Jerusalem: Hannah Arendt on the Eichmann Trial\nCHAPTER 12 Gershom Scholem’s “Ten Unhistorical Aphorisms on the Kabbalah” Translation and Commentary\nPart Four HERETICAL POLITICS\nCHAPTER 13 The Threat of Messianism: An Interview with Gershom Scholem (August 14, 1980)\nCHAPTER 14 Mysticism and Politics in Modern Israel: The Messianic Ideology of Abraham Isaac Ha-Cohen Kook\nCHAPTER 15 The End of Enlightenment?\nEPILOGUE By the Waters of San Francisco: A Partial Autobiography\nNotes