The sense of sight in rabbinic culture: Jewish ways of seeing in late antiquity

This book studies the significance of sight in rabbinic cultures across Palestine and Mesopotamia (approximately first to seventh centuries). It tracks the extent and effect to which the rabbis living in the Greco-Roman and Persian worlds sought to appropriate, recast and discipline contemporaneous...

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Main Author: Neis, Rachel (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2013.
In:Year: 2013
Reviews:The Sense of Sight in Rabbinic Culture. Jewish Ways of Seeing in Late Antiquity (2014) (Hezser, Catherine, 1960 -)
Series/Journal:Greek culture in the Roman world
Further subjects:B Middle East Civilization, To 622
B Middle East Civilization To 622
B Rabbinical literature History and criticism
B Rabbinical literature ; History and criticism
B Middle East ; Civilization ; To 622
B Vision in rabbinical literature
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Parallel Edition:Erscheint auch als: 9781107032514