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Sacred Body - Readings in Jewish Literary Illumination (Hardcover)
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Sacred Body - Readings in Jewish Literary Illumination (Hardcover)
Series: Lexington Studies in Jewish Literature
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Sacred Body: Readings in Jewish Literary Illumination provides
fresh and insightful interpretations of Jewish texts, narratives,
and cultural practices that show how these artifacts unhinge the
“sacred” from the divine and focus instead on the “everyday
sacred” of a dynamic earthly existence that emphasizes the body,
celebrates life-affirming decisions, actions, and relationships,
and avoids abstraction, metaphysics, and apocalypticism. Roberta
Sabbath argues that a diverse array of Jewish artifacts, from
sacred scripture to contemporary novels and ballet performance,
articulate a tradition that has existed for millennia in mythic,
proto-historic, legalistic, mystical, philosophical, and aesthetic
expressions of Jewishness. The author refers to this tradition as
Jewish literary illumination, and she deftly demonstrates how it
illuminates the most salient message of Judaism: that earthly
existence and the body are also the site of the spiritual and the
sacred.
General
Imprint: |
Lexington Books-Fortress Academic
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Lexington Studies in Jewish Literature |
Release date: |
April 2023 |
Authors: |
Roberta Sterman Sabbath
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
208 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-66690-796-4 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
1-66690-796-0 |
Barcode: |
9781666907964 |
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