1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910788308403321

Autore

Cohn Naftali S

Titolo

The memory of the Temple and the making of the rabbis [[electronic resource] /] / Naftali S. Cohn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2013

ISBN

0-8122-0746-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 240 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Divinations: rereading late ancient religion

Disciplina

296.4/91

Soggetti

Rabbis - Office

Judaism - History - Talmudic period, 10-425

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Notes on Usage -- Introduction. The Narration of Temple Ritual as Rabbinic Memory in the Late Second or Early Third Century -- Chapter 1. Rabbis as Jurists of Judaean Ritual Law and Competing Claims for Authority -- Chapter 2. The Temple, the Great Court, and the Rabbinic Invention of the past -- Chapter 3. Narrative form and Rabbinic Authority -- Chapter 4. Constructing Sacred Space -- Chapter 5. The Mishnah in the Context of a Wider Judaean, Christian, and Roman Temple Discourse -- Conclusion: The Memory of the Temple and the Making of the Rabbis -- Appendix A: The Mishnah's Temple Ritual Narratives and Court-Centered Ritual Narratives -- Appendix B: Mishnaic Narratives in Which a Rabbi or Rabbis Issue an Opinion with Respect to a Case -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments

Sommario/riassunto

When the rabbis composed the Mishnah in the late second or early third century C.E., the Jerusalem Temple had been destroyed for more then a century. Why, then, do the Temple and its ritual feature so prominently in the Mishnah? Against the view that the rabbis were reacting directly to the destruction and asserting that nothing had changed, Naftali S. Cohn argues that the memory of the Temple served a political function for the rabbis in their own time. They described the Temple and its ritual in a unique way that helped to establish their authority within the context of Roman dominance. At the time the Mishnah was created, the rabbis were not the only ones talking



extensively about the Temple: other Judaeans (including followers of Jesus), Christians, and even Roman emperors produced texts and other cultural artifacts centered on the Jerusalem Temple. Looking back at the procedures of Temple ritual, the rabbis created in the Mishnah a past and a Temple in their own image, which lent legitimacy to their claim to be the only authentic purveyors of Jewish tradition and the traditional Jewish way of life. Seizing on the Temple, they sought to establish and consolidate their own position of importance within the complex social and religious landscape of Jewish society in Roman Palestine.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910968803003321

Autore

Meskimmon Marsha

Titolo

Contemporary art and the cosmopolitan imagination / / Marsha Meskimmon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-136-93705-6

1-136-93706-4

1-282-78135-9

9786612781353

0-203-84683-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (148 p.)

Disciplina

701/.03

709.05

Soggetti

Art and globalization - History - 20th century

Art and globalization - History - 21st century

Art, Modern - 20th century

Art, Modern - 21st century

Cosmopolitanism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Plates; Permissions; Introduction: Contemporary art: at home in a global world;



Chapter 1 Foundation - dynamic ground; Chapter 2 Threshold - infinite generosity; Chapter 3 Passage - transitive affects; Chapter 4 Landing - imaginative engagement; Afterword: On affrmative criticality; Notes; Selected bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Contemporary Art and the Cosmopolitan Imagination explores the role of art in conceiving and reconfiguring the political, ethical and social landscape of our time. Understanding art as a vital form of articulation, Meskimmon argues that artworks do more than simply reflect and represent the processes of transnational and transcultural exchange typical of the global economy. Rather, art can change the way we imagine, understand and engage with the world and with others very different than ourselves. In this sense, art participates in a critical dialogue between cosmopolitan imaginat