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Rabbinic Judaism - Space and Place (Hardcover)
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Rabbinic Judaism - Space and Place (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Jewish Studies Series
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In the aftermath of the conquest of the Holy Land by the Romans and
their destruction of the Jerusalem Temple in 70 CE, Jews were faced
with a world in existential chaos-both they and their God were
rendered homeless. In a religious tradition that had equated Divine
approval with peaceful dwelling on the Land, this situation was
intolerable. So the rabbis, aspirants for leadership of the
post-destruction Jewish community, appropriated inherited
traditions and used them as building blocks for a new religious
structure. Not unexpectedly, given the circumstances, this new
rabbinic formation devoted considerable attention to matters of
space and place. Rabbinic Judaism: Space and Place offers the first
comprehensive study of spatiality in Rabbinic Judaism of late
antiquity, exploring how the rabbis reoriented the Jewish
relationship with space and place following the destruction of the
Jerusalem temple. Drawing upon the insights of theorists such as
Tuan and LeFebvre, who define the crisis that "homelessness"
represents and argue for the deep relationship of human societies
to their places, the book examines the compositions of the rabbis
and discovers both a surprisingly aggressive rabbinic spatial
imagination as well as places, most notably the synagogue, where
rabbinic attention to space and place is suppressed or absent. It
concludes that these represent two different but simultaneous
rabbinic strategies for re-placing God and Israel-strategies that
at the same time allow God and Israel to find a place anywhere.
This study offers new insight into the centrality of space and
place to rabbinic religion after the destruction of the Temple, and
as such would be a key resource to students and scholars interested
in rabbinic and ancient Judaism, as well as providing a major new
case study for anthropologists interested in the study of space.
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