Jewish culture between canon and heresy
In: Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
Introduction : between canon and counterhistory -- The God with breasts : El Shaddai in the Bible -- Korah in the midrash : the hairless heretic as hero -- Counterhistory and Jewish polemics against Christianity : the Sefer toldot yeshu and the Sefer zerubavel -- "The Torah speaks the language of human beings" : Abraham Ibn Ezra's radical interpretation of the Bible -- Between melancholy and a broken heart : a note on Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav's depression -- The Kabbala in Nachman Krochmal's philosophy of history -- Masochism and philosemitism : the strange case of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch -- Historical heresies and modern Jewish identity -- Shabbtai Zvi and the seductions of Jewish Orientalism -- Leo Strauss : the philosopher as Weimar Jew -- Arendt in Jerusalem : Hannah Arendt on the Eichmann trial -- Gershom Scholem's "Ten unhistorical aphorisms on Kabbalah" : translation and commentary -- The threat of messianism : an interview with Gershom Scholem (August 14, 1980) -- Mysticism and politics in modern Israel : the messianic ideology of Abraham Isaac Ha-Cohen Kook -- The end of Enlightenment? -- Epilogue : by the waters of San Francisco : a partial autobiography.