Purity, body, and self in early rabbinic literature / / Mira Balberg

• Autore: Balberg Mira <1978->
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley, California : , : University of California Press, , 2014; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (277 p.)
• Disciplina: 296.7
• Soggetto topico: Purity, Ritual - Judaism; Rabbinical literature - History and criticism
• Soggetto non controllato: ancient judaism; antiquity; bible; biblical language; biblical law; biblical practices; bodily self; consciousness; cultural studies; early rabbis; greco roman mediterranean world; history of judaism; human environment; jewish studies; judaism; mishnah; nonhuman environment; palestinian legal codex; philosophy of halakah; rabbinic texts; religion; religious studies; religious; ritual impurity; ritual purity; s mark taper foundation imprint in jewish studies series; self making; self reflection; spiritual; subjectivity
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. From Sources of Impurity to Circles of Impurity -- 2. Subjecting the Body -- 3. Objects That Matter -- 4. On Corpses and Persons -- 5. The Duality of Gentile Bodies -- 6. The Pure Self -- Epilogue: Recomposing Purity and Meaning -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Subject Index -- Source Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This book explores the ways in which the early rabbis reshaped biblical laws of ritual purity and impurity and argues that the rabbis' new purity discourse generated a unique notion of a bodily self. Focusing on the Mishnah, a Palestinian legal codex compiled around the turn of the third century CE, Mira Balberg shows how the rabbis constructed the processes of contracting, conveying, and managing ritual impurity as ways of negotiating the relations between one's self and one's body and, more broadly, the relations between one's self and one's human and nonhuman environments. With their heightened emphasis on subjectivity, consciousness, and self-reflection, the rabbis reinvented biblically inherited language and practices in a way that resonated with central cultural concerns and intellectual commitments of the Greco-Roman Mediterranean world. Purity, Body, and Self in Early Rabbinic Literature adds a new dimension to the study of practices of self-making in antiquity by suggesting that not only philosophical exercises but also legal paradigms functioned as sites through which the self was shaped and improved.
• Titolo autorizzato: Purity, body, and self in early rabbinic literature
• ISBN: 0-520-95821-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910791219203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II