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Record Nr.

UNINA9910386542803321

Autore

Destro Adriana

Titolo

The Law of Jealousy : Anthropology of Sotah / / Adriana Destro

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Brown Judaic Studies, 2020

Atlanta : , : Scholars Press, , 2020

©2020

ISBN

1-946527-73-4

Edizione

[Second edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 189 p. )

Collana

Brown Judaic studies; ; 181

Soggetti

Judaism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/bync-nd/4.0/. To use this book, or parts of this book, in any way not covered by the license, please contact Brown Judaic Studies, Brown University, Box 1826, Providence, RI 02912.

Nota di contenuto

The Bitter Waters -- Historical Background and ‘Topical’ Problems -- The Setting of the Ordeal -- The Ritual in Front of the Sanctuary -- The Epilogue of the “Judgment Of God” -- Outside The Rules.

Sommario/riassunto

This book applies anthropological insights to the understanding of an ancient and puzzling ritual, that of the sotah, or suspected adulteress. The ritual, initiated by a suspicious husband, was first described in Numbers 5, is elaborated by the later rabbis. Destro argues that the rabbis patter the sotah ritual to emphasize its, and the woman’s, anomalous nature and the symbolic work that this patterning does for the rabbinic system as a whole.