Early Israel : Cultic Praxis, God, and the Sod Hypothesis (Paperback)

Introduction: The TEXT  Part 1: The CONTEXT  1. The God of Moses versus the "One and All" of Egypt: From the Magic of Hypostatized Spirituality (Egypt) to the Discriminating Paradigm of Non-Idolatry (Israel)  2. At the Primal Scene of Communication: The Question of Israel’s Esoteric Referent  3. On the Notion of the Sod: YHWH’s Garden versus the Rabbinical Orchard  Part 2: The METATEXT  4. Tracking the Sod through Emergence of a Complex System: Accessing the Torah’s Veiled Axis of Communication  5. The Sod as Poiesis: Probing the Sod’s Poietic-Tropological Structure and Multiscalar Power Dynamics  6. A Theoretical Model of the Pentateuch: Israel’s Universe of Discourse; a Replica of the Torah; Acquiring an Apposite Research Method  Part 3: The URTEXT  7. The Pentateuchal Noetic Signifier: Retrieving the Torah within the Scripture  8. Israel’s Noematic Signified: Reverse-Engineering the Pentateuchal Deific Numinous  9. The Mysterium Tremendum of the God of Israel: Recovering the Esoteric Referent of Ancient Israelite Initiatory Praxis  Part 4: The CODE-TEXT  10. Externalizing Israel’s Ineffable: Complex Tropological Entextualization Strategies for the Pentateuchal Numinous  11. In the Garden of Sacred Semiosis: The Conundrum of the Eleventh Commandment, Eden’s Theater of Ruptured Doxa and Fractured Episteme, and Emergence of "Megaphor"  12. Postscript: The HORS-TEXTE