The Sense of Sight in Rabbinic Culture

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Beschreibung

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'.

Über den Autor

Rachel Neis is an Assistant Professor in the History Department and in the Program for Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. Her interests include rabbinic literature and culture, the history of the senses, and comparative ancient and contemporary law and legal theory.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; 1. Visual theory; 2. God-gazing and homovisuality; 3. Heterovisuality, face-bread and cherubs; 4. Visual eros; 5. Eyeing idols; 6. Seeing sages; Conclusion.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2016
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Jahrhundert:	Vor- & Frühgeschichte
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9781316628904
ISBN-10:	1316628906
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Neis, Rachel
Hersteller:	Cambridge University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	229 x 152 x 19 mm
Von/Mit:	Rachel Neis
Erscheinungsdatum:	25.04.2016
Gewicht:	0,482 kg