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46. Scholem,
The Messianic Idea in Judaism,
284.
47. Gerald L. Bruns, "Canon and Power in the Hebrew Scriptures," in
Canons,
ed. Robert Von Hallberg (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984), 67.
 
Page 147
48. Bloom,
Kabbalah and Criticism,
52.
49. Bloom, "Introduction," 29.
50. Robert Moynihan, "Interview: Harold Bloom,"
Diacritics
(Fall 1983): 67.
51. Gershom Scholem,
On Jews and Judaism In Crisis
(New York: Schocken Books, 1978), 262.
52. David Biale,
Gershom Scholem: Kabbalah and Counter-History
(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1979), 111.
53. Bloom, "Introduction," 7.
54. Bloom,
Kabbalah and Criticism,
8283.
55. Scholem,
The Messianic Idea in Judaism,
284289.
56. Bloom,
Breaking of the Vessels,
52.
57. Ozick,
Art and Ardor,
199.
58. Bloom,
Kabbalah and Criticism,
47.
59. Mileur,
Literary Revisionism,
5657.
60. Biale,
Gershom Scholem,
191. For another discussion of Bloom, Scholem and Biale, see Susan A. Handelman,
The Slayers of Moses: The Emergence of Rabbinic Interpretation in Modern Literary Theory
(Albany: SUNY Press, 1982), 197208. For Handelman, the revisionism of Scholem and Bloom (and of other Jewish thinkers such as Freud and Derrida) places them both inside and outside the tradition, a contradictory placement which has become the sine qua non of the tradition as it has been passed down and transformed in the modern period. We can only know tradition through revisionismbut according to Scholem and Bloom, it is only through revision that the tradition has ever known itself.

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