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Going West: Migrating Personae and Construction of the Self in Rabbinic Culture

Going West: Migrating Personae and Construction of the Self in Rabbinic Culture

Paperback

Judaism

ISBN10: 1951498887
ISBN13: 9781951498887
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc
Published: Oct 15 2021
Pages: 252
Weight: 0.82
Height: 0.57 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

This new book by Reuven Kiperwasser examines the social, cultural, and religious aspects of third- to sixth-century narratives involving rabbinic figures migrating between Babylonia and Palestine. Kiperwasser draws on migration and mobility studies, comparative literature, humor and satire studies, as well as social history to reveal how border-crossing rabbis were seen as exporting features of their previous eastern context into their new western homes and vice versa. Through their writing, rabbinic authors articulated the nature and legitimacy of their own scholastic practices, knowledge, and authority in relationship to their internal others.

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