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"This book investigates rabbinic treatises relating to animals, humans, and other lifeforms. Through an original analysis of creaturely generation and species classification by late ancient Palestinian rabbis and other thinkers in the Roman empire, Rafael Rachel Neis shows how rabbis blurred the lines between the human and other beings. This they did even as they were intent on classifying creatures and delineating the contours of the human. Recognizing that life proliferates via multiple mechanisms beyond sexual copulation between two heterosexual 'male' and 'female' individuals of the same species, the rabbis produced intricate alternatives. This expansive view of generation included humans. Likewise, in parsing the variety of creatures, the rabbis attended to the overlaps and resemblances across seemingly distinct species, upsetting in turn unmitigated claims of human distinctiveness. Intervening in conversations in animal studies, queer theory, trans theory, and feminist science studies, When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven provincializes sacrosanct ideals of reproduction in favor of a broader range of generation, kinship, and species offering powerful historical alternatives to the paradigms associated with so-called traditional ideas"--
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Judaism --- Midrash rabbah --- Jewish theology --- Theology, Jewish --- Doctrines. --- Leviticus. --- Midrash --- Jewish literature --- Jewish sermons --- Rabbinical literature
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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. This book examines the significant role that memory failures play in early rabbinic literature. The rabbis who shaped Judaism in late antiquity envisioned the commitment to the Torah and to its commandments as governing every single aspect of a person’s life. Their vision of a Jewish subject who must keep constant mental track of multiple obligations and teachings led them to be very preoccupied with forgetting: forgetting of tasks, forgetting of facts, forgetting of texts, and—most broadly—forgetting the Torah altogether. In Fractured Tablets, Mira Balberg examines the ways in which the early rabbis approached and delineated the possibility of forgetfulness in practice and study and the solutions and responses they conjured for forgetfulness, along with the ways in which they used human fallibility to bolster their vision of Jewish observance and their own roles as religious experts. In the process, Balberg shows that the rabbis’ intense preoccupation with the prospect of forgetfulness was a meaningful ideological choice, with profound implications for our understanding of Judaism in late antiquity.
Memory --- Rabbinical literature --- RELIGION / Judaism / History. --- Religious aspects --- Judaism. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Hebrew literature --- Jewish literature
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Judaism --- Sukkot in rabbinical literature. --- Sukkot --- History --- History. --- Feast of Tabernacles --- Succos --- Succoth --- Sukkoth --- Sukos --- Sukot --- Tabernacles, Feast of --- Fasts and feasts --- Harvest festivals --- Tishri --- Rabbinical literature --- Hellenistic Judaism --- Judaism, Hellenistic
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Women in the Bible, Qumran and Early Rabbinic Literature: Their Status and Roles portrays the tension between the unity of husband and wife and their different legal and social status from a wide range of perspectives, as deduced from the texts of the three corpora. The volume discusses the related topics of divorce, polygamy, woman’s obligations to fulfill precepts, membership in the community, genealogy and attitudes toward sex, such as rejection of asceticism. Women in the Bible, Qumran and Early Rabbinic Literature begins with an objective interpretation of the biblical narratives of the Creation and the Fall, the intellectual basis of Jewish attitudes toward women, and then analyzes the divergent interpretations of Qumran and the Rabbis, the grounds of their distinct doctrines and halakhot .
Women in rabbinical literature. --- Women in the Bible. --- Women in the Bible --- Women in rabbinical literature --- Religion --- Philosophy & Religion --- Christianity --- Women in the Talmud --- 22-055.2 --- 229*317 --- Vrouwen in de bijbel --- Qumran en het Oude Testament --- 229*317 Qumran en het Oude Testament --- 22-055.2 Vrouwen in de bijbel --- Rabbinical literature --- religion --- Asceticism --- Ezra --- God --- Halakha --- Israelites --- Judaism --- Midrash --- Qumran
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The study of classical Jewish texts is flourishing in day schools and adult education, synagogues and summer camps, universities and yeshivot. But serious inquiry into the practices and purposes of such study is far rarer. In this book, a diverse collection of empirical and conceptual studies illuminates particular aspects of the teaching of Bible and rabbinic literature to, and the learning of, children and adults. In addition to providing specific insights into the pedagogy of Jewish texts, these studies serve as models of what the disciplined study of pedagogy can look like. The book will be of interest to teachers of Jewish texts in all contexts, and will be particularly valuable for the professional development of Jewish educators.
Judaism -- History -- Talmudic period, 10-425. --- Rabbinical literature -- History and criticism. --- Jewish religious education --- Rabbinical literature --- Judaism --- History and criticism. --- History --- Talmud --- Bible. --- Study and teaching. --- Antico Testamento --- Hebrew Bible --- Hebrew Scriptures --- Kitve-ḳodesh --- Miḳra --- Old Testament --- Palaia Diathēkē --- Pentateuch, Prophets, and Hagiographa --- Sean-Tiomna --- Stary Testament --- Tanakh --- Tawrāt --- Torah, Neviʼim, Ketuvim --- Torah, Neviʼim u-Khetuvim --- Velho Testamento --- Talmud Bavli --- Babylonian Talmud --- Talmud, Babylonian --- Talmud Vavilonskiĭ --- Talmoed, Babylonische --- Babylonische Talmoed --- Shas --- Shishah sedarim --- Talmud of Babylonia --- Talmud de Babilonia --- Talmud Babli --- Talmouth --- Talmod --- Theology & Religion --- Jewish studies --- Bible studies --- Rabbinic texts
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This groundbreaking book focuses on Alfred Dreyfus the man, with emphasis placed on his own writings, including his recently published prison workbooks and his letters to his wife Lucie. Through close reading of these documents, a much more sensitive, intellectual, and Jewish man is revealed than was previously suspected. He and Lucie, through their family connections and mutual loyalty, were interested in and supported the artistic, scientific, philosophical and historical movements that formed their Parisian milieu. But as an Alsatian Jew, Alfred was also critical of many aspects of technological and ideological developments, making his mentality one of skepticism as well as idealism. Norman Simms addresses the way Dreyfus perceived the world, challenged many of its assumptions and contextualized it in the style of a rabbinical midrash, a process that created what Alfred called a “phantasmagoria” of the Affair that bears his name, and also interprets the man, his milieu and his mentality in the style of a midrash, a creative, transformative reading.
Trials (Treason) --- Antisemitism --- Midrash. --- Jewish literature --- Jewish sermons --- Rabbinical literature --- Political aspects --- History --- Dreyfus, Alfred, --- Draifus, Alfred, --- Drayfūs, Alfrīd, --- Drīfūs, Alfrīd, --- Dreĭfus, Alifred, --- Dreĭfus, Alʹfred, --- Dreyfus, Alfredo, --- דרייפוס, אלפרד --- דרייפוס, אלפרד, --- דרייפוס, אלפרעד, --- דרײפוס, אלפרד, --- France --- Antisémitisme --- Procès (Trahison) --- Histoire --- Trials, litigation, etc. --- Correspondence. --- Diaries. --- Family. --- Politics and government --- Social conditions --- Politique et gouvernement --- Conditions sociales --- Dreyfus, Alfred
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