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Power, Ethics, and Ecology in Jewish Late Antiquity: Rabbinic Responses to Drought and Disaster

‏566.00 ₪
ISBN13
9781107113350
יצא לאור ב
New York
זמן אספקה
21 ימי עסקים
עמודים
252
פורמט
Hardback
תאריך יציאה לאור
6 באוג׳ 2015
Analyzes rabbinic responses to drought and disaster, revealing how talmudic tales of charismatic holy men grapple with problems of power, ethics, and ecology in Jewish late antiquity.
Rabbinic tales of drought, disaster, and charismatic holy men illuminate critical questions about power, ethics, and ecology in Jewish late antiquity. Through a sustained reading of the Babylonian Talmud's tractate on fasts in response to drought, this book shows how Bavli Ta'anit challenges Deuteronomy's claim that virtue can assure abundance and that misfortune is an unambiguous sign of divine rebuke. Employing a new method for analyzing lengthy talmudic narratives, Julia Watts Belser traces complex strands of aggadic dialectic to show how Bavli Ta'anit's redactors articulate a strikingly self-critical theological and ethical discourse. Bavli Ta'anit castigates rabbis for misuse of power, exposing the limits of their perception and critiquing prevailing obsessions with social status. But it also celebrates the possibilities of performative perception - the power of an adroit interpreter to transform events in the world and interpret crisis in a way that draws forth blessing.
מידע נוסף
עמודים 252
פורמט Hardback
ISBN10 1107113350
יצא לאור ב New York
תאריך יציאה לאור 6 באוג׳ 2015
תוכן עניינים Introduction; Encountering the Bavli: an introduction for readers new to the Babylonian Talmud; 1. Covenantal ecology and the discourse of natural signs; 2. Reading the natural world: interpretation and meaning in Bavli Ta'anit; 3. Merit in the midst of danger: falling walls, faltering houses, and the power of performative perception; 4. Charisma and ritual fasting for the sake of rain: parrhesia, penitence, and the construction of intimacy before God; 5. Confusing the fathers: charisma and the limits of human power; 6. Hiddenness and holiness: gender, class, concealment, and the critique of rabbinic status-seeking; Conclusion.
זמן אספקה 21 ימי עסקים