The Sense of Sight in Rabbinic Culture: Jewish Ways of Seeing in Late Antiquity - Brossura

Neis, Rachel

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ISBN 10: 1316628906 ISBN 13: 9781316628904

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2016

Riassunto

This book studies the significance of sight in rabbinic cultures across Palestine and Mesopotamia (approximately from the first to seventh centuries). It tracks the extent and effect to which the rabbis living in the Greco-Roman and Persian worlds sought to appropriate, recast and discipline contemporaneous understandings of sight. Sight had a crucial role to play in the realms of divinity, sexuality and gender, idolatry and, ultimately, rabbinic subjectivity. The rabbis lived in a world in which the eyes were at once potent and vulnerable: eyes were thought to touch objects of vision, while also acting as an entryway into the viewer. Rabbis, Romans, Zoroastrians, Christians and others were all concerned with the protection and exploitation of vision. Employing many different sources, Professor Neis considers how the rabbis engaged varieties of late antique visualities, along with rabbinic narrative, exegetical and legal strategies, as part of an effort to cultivate and mark a 'rabbinic eye'.

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'... highly recommended to anyone interested in late antique Jewish, Christian, and Graeco-Roman society and to scholars of rabbinic and patristic texts.' Catherine Hezser, Theologische Literaturzeitung

Descrizione del libro:

Vision was a powerful sense in the ancient world. How did the rabbis living in Roman Palestine and Persian Mesopotamia understand and seek to discipline and cultivate it? This book offers a new perspective on the significance of sight for the rabbis, of interest to a wide range of scholars.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1316628906
• ISBN 13: 9781316628904
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 332