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Sacred Body
Readings in Jewish Literary Illumination
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2023
Summary
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.
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Edition
1/2023
Copyright Year
2023
ISBN-Print
978-1-6669-0796-4
ISBN-Online
978-1-6669-0797-1
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
204
Product Type
Monograph
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Contents No access
Preface No access
Acknowledgments No access
Jewish Literary Illumination and the Earthly Body No access Pages 1 - 24
Biblical Emigrants No access Pages 25 - 48
Sexuality, Martyrdom, and Suicide in the Talmud No access Pages 49 - 68
From Hekhalot to Kabbalah No access Pages 69 - 90
Wonder and the Jewish Enlightenment No access Pages 91 - 108
Twenty-First-Century Narratives of Jewish Identity No access Pages 109 - 134
Twenty-First-Century Epic Theater and Eclectic Choreography in Margot Mink Colbert’s Ballet No access Pages 135 - 152
