As far as I can tell, Elliot Wolfson has done as much as anyone to emphasize and explore historical differences and textual nuances, even when such differences and nuances are anything but congratulatory. Think of his extensive explorations of Jewish phallomorphism (the metaphorical prominence of the male phallus) and the ontological subsumption of the female into the male in Speculum, his long meditations on medieval Jewish exclusivism and essentialism (really a kind of anti-Christian conviction) in Language, Eros, Being, or his radical critique of theism, or theomania, in Giving Beyond the
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