The sense of sight in rabbinic culture: Jewish ways of seeing in late antiquity
This book studies the significance of sight in rabbinic cultures across Palestine and Mesopotamia (approximately 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...
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Формат: | Электронный ресурс |
Язык: | Английский |
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
2013.
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В: | Год: 2013 |
Обзоры: | The Sense of Sight in Rabbinic Culture. Jewish Ways of Seeing in Late Antiquity (2014) (Hezser, Catherine, 1960 -)
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Серии журналов/журналы: | Greek culture in the Roman world
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Другие ключевые слова: | B
Middle East
Civilization (компьютерная игра) To 622
B Middle East Civilization, To 622 B Rabbinical literature History and criticism B Rabbinical literature ; History and criticism B Middle East ; Civilization ; To 622 B Vision in rabbinical literature |
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Parallel Edition: | Erscheint auch als: 9781107032514 |
Итог: | This book studies the significance of sight in rabbinic cultures across Palestine and Mesopotamia (approximately 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'. Visual theory -- God-gazing and homovisuality -- Heterovisuality, face-bread and cherubs -- Visual eros -- Eyeing idols -- Seeing sages |
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Примечание: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015) |
ISBN: | 1139506382 |
Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781139506380 |