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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 September 2013
      29 August 2013
      ISBN:
      9781139506380
      9781107032514
      9781316628904
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139506380
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.61kg, 328 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.5kg, 332 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Ancient History, Judaism, Classical Studies, Classical Studies (General), Religion
      Series:
      Greek Culture in the Roman World
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    Subjects:
    Ancient History, Judaism, Classical Studies, Classical Studies (General), Religion
    Series:
    Greek Culture in the Roman World
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    This book studies the significance of sight in rabbinic cultures across Palestine and Mesopotamia (approximately from the first to seventh centuries). It tracks the extent and effect to which the rabbis living in the Greco-Roman and Persian worlds sought to appropriate, recast and discipline contemporaneous understandings of sight. Sight had a crucial role to play in the realms of divinity, sexuality and gender, idolatry and, ultimately, rabbinic subjectivity. The rabbis lived in a world in which the eyes were at once potent and vulnerable: eyes were thought to touch objects of vision, while also acting as an entryway into the viewer. Rabbis, Romans, Zoroastrians, Christians and others were all concerned with the protection and exploitation of vision. Employing many different sources, Professor Neis considers how the rabbis engaged varieties of late antique visualities, along with rabbinic narrative, exegetical and legal strategies, as part of an effort to cultivate and mark a 'rabbinic eye'.

    Awards

    Winner of the 2013 Salo Baron Prize

    Honourable Mention, 2013 Jordan Schnitzer Book Awards, Biblical Studies, Rabbinics, and Jewish History and Culture in Antiquity category

    Reviews

    '… highly recommended to anyone interested in late antique Jewish, Christian, and Graeco-Roman society and to scholars of rabbinic and patristic texts.'

    Catherine Hezser Source: Theologische Literaturzeitung

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