Sacred Body - Readings in Jewish Literary Illumination

Informationen zum Autor Roberta Sabbath is director of religious studies and visiting assistant professor in the English Department at University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Klappentext Sacred Body analyzes exemplary Jewish texts, narratives, and cultural practices that show how these artifacts unhinge the "sacred" from the divine and focus instead on the "everyday sacred," earthly existence in order to celebrate life-affirming decisions, actions, and relationships, and avoid abstraction, metaphysics, and apocalypticism. Zusammenfassung Sacred Body analyzes exemplary Jewish texts, narratives, and cultural practices that show how these artifacts unhinge the “sacred” from the divine and focus instead on the “everyday sacred,” earthly existence in order to celebrate life-affirming decisions, actions, and relationships, and avoid abstraction, metaphysics, and apocalypticism. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1. Biblical Emigrants: Human Agency in Eve, Abraham, Sarah Chapter 2. Sexuality, Martyrdom, and Suicide in the Talmud: Life Force and Death by Choice Chapter 3. From Hekhalot to Kabbalah: Accessing the Body of God Chapter 4. Wonder and the Jewish Enlightenment: False Messiahs, Philosophers, and Social Justice Chapter 5. Twenty-First Century Narratives of Jewish Identity: The Schlemiel and the Messianic in Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policemen's Union and Nicole Krauss's Forest Dark Chapter 6.Twenty-First Century Epic Theater and Eclectic Choreography in Margot Mink Colbert's Ballet Transit(ion): Emigration Transformation

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By Roberta Sterman Sabbath

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• Authors: Roberta Sabbath, Roberta Sterman Sabbath
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2023
• EAN: 9781666907964
• ISBN: 978-1-66690-796-4
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Lexington Studies in Jewish Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies, Jewish Studies, Literature: history & criticism, Relating to Jewish people & groups, Social groups: religious groups & communities, Cultural studies;Jewish philosophy;Jewish studies;Judaism