David Kraemer

Rabbinic Judaism (eBook, ePUB)

Space and Place

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 that "homelessness" represents and argue for the deep relationship of human societies to their places, the book examines the compositions of the rabbis and discovers both a surprisingly aggressive rabbinic spatial imagination as well as places, most notably the synagogue, where rabbinic attention to space and place is suppressed or absent. It concludes that these represent two different but simultaneous rabbinic strategies for re-placing God and Israel-strategies that at the same time allow God and Israel to find a place anywhere.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 170
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. September 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317375609
• Artikelnr.: 43824659

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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