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Volume 04, Number 1 (1979)

The Myth of Exile and Redemption in "Gloss Gimel"

  • Zailig Pollock
Submitted
May 22, 2008
Published
1979-01-01

Abstract

In the most Lurianic section of A.M. Klein's The Second Scroll, Melech claims to have read Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling in terms of "magical circles" (inspired by the Neo-platonic circle of emanation) which symbolize the process of exile and redemption. Melech argues that there is a logic in his reading of Michelangelo's ceiling which leads from despair to hope; this logic is ultimately replaced by faith.