The Virgin Mary, Miriam, and jewish reactions to marian devotion in the high middle ages
A trenchant and rather paradoxical Hasidic saying asserts the following: He who believes the tall tales told by the Hasidim may be a fool, but he who does not believe them is a heretic. It turns out that many secular writers have in fact read and examined Hasidic tales sympathetically, without neces...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Pennsylvania Press
[2013]
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AJS review
Year: 2013, Volume: 37, Issue: 1, Pages: 75-91 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Maria, von Nazaret, Biblische Person
/ Marian devotion
/ Judaism
/ Custom
B Judaism / Ritual / History B Culture / Manners and customs B Rabbi / Christianity / Death / Polemics |
| RelBib Classification: | BH Judaism |
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| Summary: | A trenchant and rather paradoxical Hasidic saying asserts the following: He who believes the tall tales told by the Hasidim may be a fool, but he who does not believe them is a heretic. It turns out that many secular writers have in fact read and examined Hasidic tales sympathetically, without necessarily regarding them as true. But what exactly is the relationship of such non-believers to Hasidism? Can a secularist genuinely connect with texts that seem to be totally immersed in their religious context and driven by specifically religious interests? Can a reader who repudiates the assumptions of the original author (and even of his intended audience) nevertheless engage in a personally uplifting or even spiritually-inspired reading of such texts? Is there a spiritual dimension capable of traversing the barriers of religious doctrine, and penetrating the inner world of the heretic? |
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| ISSN: | 1475-4541 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Association for Jewish Studies, AJS review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0364009413000056 |