The Sense of Sight in Rabbinic Culture: Jewish Ways of Seeing in Late Antiquity

ISBN-13: 9781316628904 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 332 str.

Rachel Neis

Opis

This book explores the power of sight for ancient rabbis across the realms of divinity, sexuality, idolatry and rabbinic subjectivity.

Recenzje

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

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Visual theory; 2. God-gazing and homovisuality; 3. Heterovisuality, face-bread and cherubs; 4. Visual eros; 5. Eyeing idols; 6. Seeing sages; Conclusion.