Sacred Body

Roberta Sterman Sabbath

doi:10.5771/9781666907971

Sacred Body

Readings in Jewish Literary Illumination

1. Edition 2023

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doi.org/10.5771/9781666907971
ISBN print: 978-1-6669-0796-4
ISBN online: 978-1-6669-0797-1
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Abstract

Sacred Body: Readings in Jewish Literary Illumination provides fresh and insightful interpretations of Jewish texts, narratives, and cultural practices that show how these artifacts unhinge the “sacred” from the divine and focus instead on the “everyday sacred” of a dynamic earthly existence that emphasizes the body, celebrates life-affirming decisions, actions, and relationships, and avoids abstraction, metaphysics, and apocalypticism. Roberta Sabbath argues that a diverse array of Jewish artifacts, from sacred scripture to contemporary novels and ballet performance, articulate a tradition that has existed for millennia in mythic, proto-historic, legalistic, mystical, philosophical, and aesthetic expressions of Jewishness. The author refers to this tradition as Jewish literary illumination, and she deftly demonstrates how it illuminates the most salient message of Judaism: that earthly existence and the body are also the site of the spiritual and the sacred.

Schlagworte

Jewish philosophy Jewish studies Judaism Cultural studies

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Preface
1–24 Jewish Literary Illumination and the Earthly Body 1–24
25–48 Biblical Emigrants 25–48
49–68 Sexuality, Martyrdom, and Suicide in the Talmud 49–68
69–90 From Hekhalot to Kabbalah 69–90
91–108 Wonder and the Jewish Enlightenment 91–108
109–134 Twenty-First-Century Narratives of Jewish Identity 109–134
135–152 Twenty-First-Century Epic Theater and Eclectic Choreography in Margot Mink Colbert’s Ballet 135–152
153–154 Reflections 153–154
155–172 Bibliography 155–172
173–196 Index 173–196
197–202 Scripture index 197–202
203–204 About the Author 203–204

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