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A Traveling Homeland - The Babylonian Talmud as Diaspora (Hardcover)
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A Traveling Homeland - The Babylonian Talmud as Diaspora (Hardcover)
Series: Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion
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A word conventionally imbued with melancholy meanings, "diaspora"
has been used variously to describe the cataclysmic historical
event of displacement, the subsequent geographical scattering of
peoples, or the conditions of alienation abroad and yearning for an
ancestral home. But as Daniel Boyarin writes, diaspora may be more
constructively construed as a form of cultural hybridity or a mode
of analysis. In A Traveling Homeland, he makes the case that a
shared homeland or past and traumatic dissociation are not
necessary conditions for diaspora and that Jews carry their
homeland with them in diaspora, in the form of textual,
interpretive communities built around talmudic study. For Boyarin,
the Babylonian Talmud is a diasporist manifesto, a text that
produces and defines the practices that constitute Jewish diasporic
identity. Boyarin examines the ways the Babylonian Talmud imagines
its own community and sense of homeland, and he shows how talmudic
commentaries from the medieval and early modern periods also
produce a doubled cultural identity. He links the ongoing
productivity of this bifocal cultural vision to the nature of the
book: as the physical text moved between different times and
places, the methods of its study developed through contact with
surrounding cultures. Ultimately, A Traveling Homeland envisions
talmudic study as the center of a shared Jewish identity and a
distinctive feature of the Jewish diaspora that defines it as a
thing apart from other cultural migrations.
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