The sense of sight in rabbinic culture : Jewish ways of seeing in late antiquity / Rachel Neis.
Neis, Rachel.
2013
BM496.9.V57 N45 2013
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Title The sense of sight in rabbinic culture : Jewish ways of seeing in late antiquity / Rachel Neis.
Author Neis, Rachel.
ISBN 9781107032514
9781107290280 (electronic book)
Published New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (333 pages)
Call Number BM496.9.V57 N45 2013
Dewey Decimal Classification 333
Summary "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 understandings of sight. Sight had a crucial role to play in the realms of divinity, sexuality and gender, idolatry and, ultimately, rabbinic subjectivity. The rabbis lived in a world in which the eyes were at once potent and vulnerable: eyes were thought to touch objects of vision, while also acting as an entryway into the viewer. Rabbis, Romans, Zoroastrians, Christians and others were all concerned with the protection and exploitation of vision. Employing many different sources, Professor Neis considers how the rabbis engaged varieties of late antique visualities, along with rabbinic narrative, exegetical and legal strategies, as part of an effort to cultivate and mark a 'rabbinic eye'"-- Provided by publisher.
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Series Greek culture in the Roman world
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Visual theory
God-gazing and homovisuality
Heterovisuality, face-bread and cherubs
Visual eros
Eyeing idols
Seeing sages.

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