LEADER 04748nam 2200757 a 450 001 9910452680503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-89816-0 010 $a0-8122-0694-0 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812206944 035 $a(CKB)2550000000707659 035 $a(OCoLC)824729216 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10642139 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000787242 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11501103 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000787242 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10812754 035 $a(PQKB)10746048 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441804 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse19132 035 $a(DE-B1597)449628 035 $a(OCoLC)979833939 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812206944 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441804 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10642139 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL421066 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000707659 100 $a20120130d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aTextual mirrors$b[electronic resource] $ereflexivity, Midrash, and the rabbinic self /$fDina Stein 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (211 p.) 225 1 $aDivinations : rereading late ancient religion 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8122-4436-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIntroduction -- $tChapter 1. Simon the Just and the Nazirite: Reflections of (Im)Possible Selves -- $tChapter 2. A King, a Queen, and the Discourse Between: The Riddle of Midrash -- $tChapter 3. The Blind Eye of the Beholder: Tall Tales, Travelogues, and Midrash -- $tChapter 4. Being There: Serah. bat Asher, Magical Language, and Rabbinic Textual Interpretation -- $tChapter 5. A Maidservant and Her Master's Voice: From Narcissism to Mimicry -- $tEpilogue: Midrash, Ruins, and Self-Reflexivity -- $tAppendix: bBava Batra 73a-75b -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex -- $tAcknowledgments 330 $aAs they were entering Egypt, Abram glimpsed Sarai's reflection in the Nile River. Though he had been married to her for years, this moment is positioned in a rabbinic narrative as a revelation. "Now I know you are a beautiful woman," he says; at that moment he also knows himself as a desiring subject, and knows too to become afraid for his own life due to the desiring gazes of others.There are few scenes in rabbinic literature that so explicitly stage a character's apprehension of his or her own or another's literal reflection. Still, Dina Stein argues, the association of knowledge and reflection operates as a central element in rabbinic texts. Midrash explicitly refers to other texts; biblical texts are both reconstructed and taken apart in exegesis, and midrashic narrators are situated liminally with respect to the tales they tell. This inherent structural quality underlies the propensity of rabbinic literature to reflect or refer to itself, and the "self" that is the object of reflection is not just the narrator of a tale but a larger rabbinic identity, a coherent if polyphonous entity that emerges from this body of texts.Textual Mirrors draws on literary theory, folklore studies, and semiotics to examine stories in which self-reflexivity operates particularly strongly to constitute rabbinic identity through the voices of Simon the Just and a handsome shepherd, the daughter of Asher, the Queen of Sheba, and an unnamed maidservant. 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Introduction --$t2. An Iterative Decomposition of Global Conformal Invariants: The First Step --$t3. The Second Step: The Fefferman-Graham Ambient Metric and the Nature of the Decomposition --$t4. A Result on the Structure of Local Riemannian Invariants: The Fundamental Proposition --$t5. The Inductive Step of the Fundamental Proposition: The Simpler Cases --$t6. The Inductive Step of the Fundamental Proposition: The Hard Cases, Part I --$t7. The Inductive Step of the Fundamental Proposition: The Hard Cases, Part II --$tA. Appendix --$tBibliography --$tIndex of Authors and Terms --$tIndex of Symbols 330 $aThis book addresses a basic question in differential geometry that was first considered by physicists Stanley Deser and Adam Schwimmer in 1993 in their study of conformal anomalies. The question concerns conformally invariant functionals on the space of Riemannian metrics over a given manifold. These functionals act on a metric by first constructing a Riemannian scalar out of it, and then integrating this scalar over the manifold. Suppose this integral remains invariant under conformal re-scalings of the underlying metric. What information can one then deduce about the Riemannian scalar? Deser and Schwimmer asserted that the Riemannian scalar must be a linear combination of three obvious candidates, each of which clearly satisfies the required property: a local conformal invariant, a divergence of a Riemannian vector field, and the Chern-Gauss-Bonnet integrand. This book provides a proof of this conjecture. The result itself sheds light on the algebraic structure of conformal anomalies, which appear in many settings in theoretical physics. It also clarifies the geometric significance of the renormalized volume of asymptotically hyperbolic Einstein manifolds. The methods introduced here make an interesting connection between algebraic properties of local invariants--such as the classical Riemannian invariants and the more recently studied conformal invariants--and the study of global invariants, in this case conformally invariant integrals. 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Accompanying issues have been the extent to which its traditional character and main features have been changed, lost their former appeal and retained their distinctness in the European Union. These issues are not readily addressed in everyday thinking about a constitution simply conceived as unwritten or in constitutional accounts variously preoccupied with abstract analysis, political accountability or transcendent norms. The English Historical Constitution addresses these issues by developing a historical constitutional approach and thus elaborating on continuity and change in the constitution's main doctrines and institutions. 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