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Power, Ethics, and Ecology in Jewish Late Antiquity - Rabbinic Responses to Drought and Disaster (Hardcover)
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Power, Ethics, and Ecology in Jewish Late Antiquity - Rabbinic Responses to Drought and Disaster (Hardcover)
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Rabbinic tales of drought, disaster, and charismatic holy men
illuminate critical questions about power, ethics, and ecology in
Jewish late antiquity. Through a sustained reading of the
Babylonian Talmud's tractate on fasts in response to drought, this
book shows how Bavli Ta'anit challenges Deuteronomy's claim that
virtue can assure abundance and that misfortune is an unambiguous
sign of divine rebuke. Employing a new method for analyzing lengthy
talmudic narratives, Julia Watts Belser traces complex strands of
aggadic dialectic to show how Bavli Ta'anit's redactors articulate
a strikingly self-critical theological and ethical discourse. Bavli
Ta'anit castigates rabbis for misuse of power, exposing the limits
of their perception and critiquing prevailing obsessions with
social status. But it also celebrates the possibilities of
performative perception - the power of an adroit interpreter to
transform events in the world and interpret crisis in a way that
draws forth blessing.
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