附註:Includes bibliographical references.
Three Biblical beginnings / Michael Carasik -- Expulsion as initiation : displacement, Divine presence, and Divine exile in the Torah / Benjamin D. Sommer -- The beginnings of Rabbinic textuality : women's bodies and paternal knowledge / Charlotte Fonrobert -- Beginning gittin/mapping exile / Aryeh Cohen -- Burying the dead / Miriam Peskowitz -- Before 'alef/where beginnings end / Eliot Wolfson -- Origin and overcoming the beginning: zimzum as a trope of reading in post-Lurianic Kabbala / Shaul Magid -- Cyclical motions and the force of repetition in the thought of Franz Rosenzweig / Zachary Braiterman.