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The sense of sight in rabbinic culture : Jewish ways of seeing in late antiquity / Rachel Neis

Neis, Rachel, 1973-

Cambridge : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2013

XII, 319 S. ; 23 cm

Englisch

Visual theoryGod-gazing and homovisuality -- Heterovisuality, face-bread and cherubs -- Visual eros -- Eyeing idols -- Seeing sages.

Rezensiert in: The Sense of Sight in Rabbinic Culture. Jewish Ways of Seeing in Late Antiquity / Hezser, Catherine

978-1-107-03251-4 ((hbk.) No price)

2013017094

016418984

OCoLC: 864558524     

OCoLC: 897430594 (aus SWB)     

BD 3900      Ähnliche Literatur

BM496.9.V57

296.1/20815214 ; 305.892409015

Basisklassifikation: 11.22 (Rabbinica)

SSG-Nummer(n): 6,12; 0

*Spätantike ; Jüdische Philosophie ; Rabbinische Literatur      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Vision in rabbinical literature ; Rabbinical literature -- History and criticism ; Middle East -- Civilization -- To 622

Jews / Palestine / Social life and customs ; Jews / Iraq / Social life and customs ; Rabbis / Palestine / History / To 1500 ; Rabbis / Iraq / History / To 1500 ; Vision / Religious aspects / Judaism ; Iraq / Civilization / To 634 ; Palestine / Civilization

"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'"--