In From Metaphysics to Midrash, Shaul Magid explores the exegetical                  tradition of Isaac Luria and his followers within the historical context in                  16th-century Safed, a unique community that brought practitioners of Judaism,                  Christianity, and Islam into close contact with one another. Luria's scripture                  became a theater in which kabbalists redrew boundaries of difference in areas of                  ethnicity, gender, and the human relation to the divine. Magid investigates how                  cultural influences altered scriptural exegesis of Lurianic Kabbala in its                  philosophical, hermeneutical, and historical perspectives. He suggests that Luria                  and his followers were far from cloistered. They used their considerable skills to                  weigh in on important matters of the day, offering, at times, some surprising                  solutions to perennial theological problems.

From Metaphysics to Midrash: Myth, History, and the Interpretation of Scripture in Lurianic Kabbala (Indiana Studies in Biblical Literature) PDF

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