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Tree of Souls: The Mythology of Judaism de Howard Schwartz

Tree of Souls: The Mythology of Judaism

Autor Howard Schwartz Ilustrat de Caren Loebel-Fried
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 28 oct 2004

Studiul religiei a cunoscut o transformare profundă în ultimele decenii, trecând de la o analiză pur teologică la o recunoaștere a dimensiunii mitice ca fundament identitar. Ne-a atras atenția modul în care Tree of Souls reușește să spulbere prejudecata conform căreia iudaismul ar fi o tradiție lipsită de mitologie. Această antologie monumentală, publicată de Oxford University Press, reprezintă prima tentativă exhaustivă de a cartografia imaginarul evreiesc, oferind cititorului de limbă engleză acces la un patrimoniu spiritual adesea umbrit de rigoarea normativă.

Apreciem structura riguroasă în zece secțiuni tematice, care ghidează cititorul prin miturile Creației, ale Cerului, ale Iadului și ale figurilor biblice esențiale. Howard Schwartz nu se limitează la simpla expunere a textelor; el însoțește fiecare dintre cele aproape 700 de mituri cu un aparat critic bogat, stabilind paralele fascinante cu literatura universală. Cititorii familiarizați cu Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking de Michael Fishbane vor aprecia la acest volum modul în care analiza se extinde dincolo de textele rabbinice clasice, încorporând folclorul medieval și tradițiile orale moderne.

În contextul operei sale, Tree of Souls acționează ca o piatră de temelie. Dacă în Gabriel's Palace autorul s-a concentrat pe experiențele mistice ale rabinilor, iar în Lilith's Cave a explorat latura supranaturală a folclorului, volumul de față sintetizează aceste direcții într-o cosmologie completă. Stilul este precis, academic, dar păstrează magia povestirii, fiind susținut vizual de cele zece ilustrații care punctează momentele cheie ale narațiunii mitice.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780195086799
ISBN-10: 0195086791
Pagini: 704
Ilustrații: 10 line drawings
Dimensiuni: 189 x 258 x 51 mm
Greutate: 1.44 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această lucrare oricărui cititor pasionat de antropologie culturală și istoria religiilor. Este o resursă esențială pentru a înțelege rădăcinile mitice ale iudaismului, oferind un context vast care lipsește din bibliografiile standard. Câștigați o perspectivă nouă asupra textelor biblice, descoperind o tradiție vibrantă populată de îngeri, demoni și simboluri mistice, toate explicate prin prisma surselor originale.

Despre autor

Howard Schwartz este un distins cercetător, poet și culegător de folclor, recunoscut la nivel internațional pentru contribuțiile sale la conservarea tradiției narative evreiești. Triplu laureat al National Jewish Book Award, Schwartz este profesor la Universitatea din Missouri-St. Louis (deși datele asociază uneori numele cu alte instituții, profilul său literar este legat de recuperarea mitului). Opera sa, care include titluri de referință precum Leaves from the Garden of Eden și Gabriel's Palace, se distinge prin rigoarea academică împletită cu o sensibilitate poetică, reușind să aducă în contemporaneitate texte ezoterice și legende uitate.

Descriere

Only one of the world's mythologies has remained essentially unrecognized--the mythology of Judaism. As Howard Schwartz reveals in Tree of Souls, the first anthology of Jewish mythology in English, this mythical tradition is as rich and as fascinating as any in the world. Drawing from the Bible, the Pseudepigrapha, the Talmud and Midrash, the kabbalistic literature, medieval folklore, Hasidic texts, and oral lore collected in the modern era, Schwartz has gathered together nearly 700 of the key Jewish myths. The myths themselves are marvelous. We read of Adam's diamond and the Land of Eretz (where it is always dark), the fall of Lucifer and the quarrel of the sun and the moon, the Treasury of Souls and the Divine Chariot. We discover new tales about the great figures of the Hebrew Bible, from Adam to Moses; stories about God's Bride, the Shekhinah, and the evil temptress, Lilith; plus many tales about angels and demons, spirits and vampires, giant beasts and the Golem. Equally important, Schwartz provides a wealth of additional information. For each myth, he includes extensive commentary, revealing the source of the myth and explaining how it relates to other Jewish myths as well as to world literature (for instance, comparing Eve's release of evil into the world with Pandora's). For ease of use, Schwartz divides the volume into ten books: Myths of God, Myths of Creation, Myths of Heaven, Myths of Hell, Myths of the Holy Word, Myths of the Holy Time, Myths of the Holy People, Myths of the Holy Land, Myths of Exile, and Myths of the Messiah. Schwartz, a renowned collector and teller of traditional Jewish tales, now illuminates the previously unexplored territory of Jewish mythology. This pioneering anthology is essential for anyone interested in the Hebrew Bible, Jewish faith and culture, and world mythology.

Notă biografică

Howard Schwartz is Professor of English at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. He is the editor of Elijah's Violin & Other Jewish Fairy Tales, Miriam's Tambourine: Jewish Folktales from Around the World, Lilith's Cave: Jewish Tales of the Supernatural, and Gabriel's Palace: Jewish Mystical Tales.

Recenzii

"Sixhundred and seventy stories are collected, retold, and annotated in this attractive manual, meant to be on the shelves of Jewish households and friends of Jewish lore and legend. Each item is followed by the compiler's interpretive comments, a list of the relevant biblical and postbiblical sources, and often also by a reference to relevant secondary literature...The book includes an excellent subject index and a bibliography.- This volume should be in the Judaica section of all libraries."--International Review of Biblical Studies
"This remarkable work will be of interest to both the scholar and the browser."--Booklist
"One of those few books that can be cherished and enjoyed by all readers, whether scholars or merely those interested in good stories.... In this massive work, Schwartz gathers nearly seven hundred myths to show that there is, indeed, a Jewish mythology. His selections are wisely and cleverly chosen.... No one in recent times has even attempted to put together such a comprehensive work. In both the collecting and organizing of his material, Schwartz has done a masterful job."--Josepha Sherman, Parabola
"Howard Schwartz offers a resounding rebuttal to the old accusation that the Jews have no mythology: hundreds of myths, in an unbroken line from the Tanakh itself to many new, previously untranslated contemporary retellings from the Middle East and throughout the diaspora. Tree of Souls illuminates the mythic elements of stories previously seen as theological or folkloric. Now properly classified as world mythology, they will for the first time be more accurately compared and contrasted with the foundational myths of other cultures. This is that rare book that is both a fascinating read for the non-specialist and a turning point for scholarship." --Wendy Doniger, author of The Woman Who Pretended to Be Who She Was: Myths of Self-Imitation
"Beyond any of his other books, in Tree of Souls: The Mythology of Judaism Howard Schwartz offers us his masterwork. If only Joseph Campbell had lived to see it. Schwartz has brought the underground streams of Midrash to the surface for the delight and edification of his academic as well as his popular readers." --Rabbi Zalman M. Schachter-Shalomi, author of Wrapped in a Holy Flame: Teachings and Tales of the Hasidic Masters
"Under the complex, meaning-rich, and culturally important heading of 'mythology,' Howard Schwartz provides a beautifully introduced and annotated collection of essential stories and scenes that help to define Judaism in the classical tradition. Schwartz's careful, erudite method of presentation and his excellent selection of texts reveals fine mastery of the material and the pleasingly comparative orientation of the folklorist." --Susan Niditch, author of Ancient Israelite Religion
"Tree of Souls promises to shatter the myth that Judaism is mythless. Drawing on primary source texts of the Jewish tradition itself, storyteller Howard Schwartz introduces us to a dimension of this ancient path that has for centuries been overshadowed by attempts at religious correctness and party-line theology. Jewish mythology, Schwartz demonstrates with ample commentaries, is not only a fact, it is the very kernel out of which grew the deepest of Kabbalistic mystery wisdom as well as the most pragmatic of Jewish law and lore. Clearly, Judaism owes its survival to its mythology, and in Tree of Souls Schwartz invites us to discover the mystique, actually the very life force, of this very ancient religion." --Gershon Winkler, author of Magic of the Ordinary: Recovering the Shamanic in Judaism