The Daphne Motif and the problem with Laurels
Everywhere in JEM (Jewish Esoteric Moralization) we encounter an “Adonis Motif.” Here the Jewish artist presents the Adonai or Jewish God as the “moral” “spiritually beautiful” sympathetic lover who obtains the desired female breeding stock. In such narratives he frequently out-competes “morally inferior,” unintelligent or insensitive Martial and Apollonian figures. Again, that Adonis ostensibly suffers […]
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