In a world of relentless and often violent change, what does it
take for a culture to survive? Steven Weitzman addresses this
question by exploring the "arts of cultural persistence"--the
tactics that cultures employ to sustain themselves in the face of
intractable realities. "Surviving Sacrilege" focuses on a famously
resilient culture caught between two disruptive acts of sacrilege:
ancient Judaism between the destruction of the First Temple (by the
Babylonians) in 586 B.C. and the destruction of the Second Temple
(by the Romans) in 70 C.E..
Throughout this period Jews faced the challenge of preserving
their religious traditions in a world largely out of their
control--a world ruled first by the Persians, then by the
Hellenistic Seleucid Kingdom, and finally by the Roman Empire.
Their struggle to answer this challenge yields insight into the
ingenuity, resourcefulness, and creativity of a distinctive period
in Jewish history, but one with broad implications for the study of
religious and cultural survival.
Detecting something tenaciously self-preserving at the core of
the imagination, Weitzman argues that its expression in
storytelling, fantasy, imitation, metaphor, and magic allows a
culture's survival instinct to maneuver within, beyond, and even
against the limits of reality.
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