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Defeating Evil from Within: Comparative Perspectives on “Redemption through Sin”

Defeating Evil from Within: Comparative Perspectives on “Redemption through Sin” TheJollrnalo[Jewish Thought and Philosophy, Vol. 6, pp. 37-57 © 1997 Reprints available directly from the publisher Photocopying permitted by licence only Defeating Evil from Within: Comparative Perspectives on "Redemption through Sin" Steven M. Wasserstrom Department of Religion, Reed College, Portland, OR 97202 W 0 aber Gefahr ist, wachst Das Rettende auch. Holderlin, "Patmos" The greatest scholarship requires the closest study. We all know that Gershom Scholem's classic essay "Redemption through Sin" (written 1935, published 1937) remains one of the most influential essays written not only in Jewish Studies but in the history of religions more generally.1 It was a tour de force, serving at once as programmatic seed, historiographic manifesto, research agenda, and transvaluational breakthrough. Even after many translations and republications, this essay remains positioned in Scholem's corpus as a vital synthesis of his innovative creativity. But the paradoxical morality articulated by Scholem in "Redemption through Sin" only appears to be utterly novel. In fact, it emerges more and more clearly that his genius, as manifested in this essay, may properly be understood as rooted in its own era. I would like to show that "Redemption through Sin" can be illuminated when read in the light of contemporaneous http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy Brill

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© 1997 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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TheJollrnalo[Jewish Thought and Philosophy, Vol. 6, pp. 37-57 © 1997 Reprints available directly from the publisher Photocopying permitted by licence only Defeating Evil from Within: Comparative Perspectives on "Redemption through Sin" Steven M. Wasserstrom Department of Religion, Reed College, Portland, OR 97202 W 0 aber Gefahr ist, wachst Das Rettende auch. Holderlin, "Patmos" The greatest scholarship requires the closest study. We all know that Gershom Scholem's classic essay "Redemption through Sin" (written 1935, published 1937) remains one of the most influential essays written not only in Jewish Studies but in the history of religions more generally.1 It was a tour de force, serving at once as programmatic seed, historiographic manifesto, research agenda, and transvaluational breakthrough. Even after many translations and republications, this essay remains positioned in Scholem's corpus as a vital synthesis of his innovative creativity. But the paradoxical morality articulated by Scholem in "Redemption through Sin" only appears to be utterly novel. In fact, it emerges more and more clearly that his genius, as manifested in this essay, may properly be understood as rooted in its own era. I would like to show that "Redemption through Sin" can be illuminated when read in the light of contemporaneous

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Published: Jan 1, 1997

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