Rabbinic Judaism: Space and Place

ISBN-13: 9780367874544 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 156 str.

David Kraemer

Opis

Rabbinic Judaism: Space and Place offers the first comprehensive study of spatiality in Rabbinic Judaism of late antiquity, exploring how the rabbis reoriented the Jewish relationship with space and place following the destruction of the Jerusalem temple. Drawing upon the insights of theorists such as Tuan and LeFebvre, who define the crisis tha

Spis treści

1.Introduction 2. Early Christians 3. Rebuilding the Temple 4. Mapping the Sacred Land: Fields and their Boundaries (Kilayim and Peah) 5. Sabbath Maps 6. Real Mythical Space: The Sukkah 7. The Other Rabbinic Spatiality: Ohalot (Tents Containing Death Impurity) 8. Place Without Place I: Blessings 9. Place Without Place II: The Synagogue 10. Space Matters

O autorze

David Kraemer is the Joseph J. and Dora Abbell Librarian and professor of Talmud and Rabbinics at The Jewish Theological Seminary, New York