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Cherub Press is proud to announce the publication of
the 26th volume in the book series, "Sources and Studies in the
Literature of Jewish Mysticism"
Kabbalistic Manuscripts and Textual Theory
Methodologies of Textual Scholarship and Editorial Practice in the
Study of Jewish Mysticism
by Daniel Abrams
foreword by David Greetham
SSLJM 26; 2010,
761 pp., hardcover, ISBN 1-933379-18-9, in English, $49.
Kabbalistic Manuscripts and Textual Theory uncovers the unstated
assumptions and expectations of scribes and scholars who fashioned
editions from manuscripts of Jewish mystical literature. This study
offers a theory of kabbalistic textuality in which the material book -
the printed page no less than handwritten manuscripts - serves as the
site for textual dialogue between Jewish mystics of different periods
and locations. The refashioning of the text through the process of
reading and commenting that takes place on the page - in the margins
and between the lines - blurs the boundaries between the traditionally
defined roles of author, reader, commentator and editor. This study
shows that kabbalists and academic editors reinvented the text in
their own image, as part of a fluid textual process that was nothing
short of transformative.
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