02569nam 2200445 450 991081348840332120230810001700.090-04-33906-X10.1163/9789004339064(CKB)3710000001018450(MiAaPQ)EBC4790850(OCoLC)970042480(nllekb)BRILL9789004339064(EXLCZ)99371000000101845020170227d2017 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierRabbinic body language non-verbal communication in Palestinian rabbinic literature of late antiquity /by Catherine HezserLeiden ;Boston :Brill.c2017.1 online resource (308 pages)Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism ;v. 17990-04-33905-1 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Appearance and Demeanor -- Posture and Spatial Behavior -- Gestures -- Facial Expressions -- Conclusions: Body Language in Rabbinic Literature -- Bibliography -- Index of Sources -- Index of Subjects.This study constitutes the first comprehensive examination of rabbinic body language represented in Palestinian rabbinic sources of late antiquity. Catherine Hezser examines rabbis’ appearance and demeanor, spatial movement, gestures, and facial expressions on the basis of literary and social-anthropological methods and theories. She discusses the various forms of rabbis’ non-verbal communication in the context of Graeco-Roman and ancient Christian literary sources and in connection with the material culture of Roman and early Byzantine Palestine. Catherine Hezser convincingly shows that in rabbinic literature body language serves as an important means of rabbis’ self-fashioning. Rabbinic texts create the image of a particularly Jewish type of intellectual who functioned and competed for adherents within the highly visual and body-conscious environment of late antiquity.Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism179.Nonverbal communication in rabbinical literatureNonverbal communication in rabbinical literature.296.1/2406Hezser Catherine1960-922024NL-LeKBNL-LeKBBOOK9910813488403321Rabbinic body language4041036UNINA