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

Informationen zum 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. Klappentext This book explores the power of sight for ancient rabbis across the realms of divinity, sexuality, idolatry and rabbinic subjectivity. Zusammenfassung 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. 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.

Product details

• Authors: Rachel Neis, Rachel (University of Michigan Neis, Neis Rachel
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.08.2013
• EAN: 9781107032514
• ISBN: 978-1-107-03251-4
• No. of pages: 328
• Series: Greek Culture in the Roman World; Greek Culture in the Roman Wor; Greek Culture in the Roman Wor; Greek Culture in the Roman World
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Europe, European History, HISTORY / Ancient / General, Ancient Greece, Jewish Studies, Judaism: life & practice, Judaism, Ancient World, Ancient Rome, Ancient History, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, BCE to c 500 CE, C 500 CE To C 1000 CE, BCE period – Protohistory, Judaism: worship, rites & ceremonies