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The Jewish Body: Corporeality, Society, and Identity in the Renaissance and Early Modern Period

The Jewish Body: Corporeality, Society, and Identity in the Renaissance and Early Modern Period

Veltri, Giuseppe
Diemling, Maria

Hardcover

Judaism

ISBN10: 9004167188
ISBN13: 9789004167186
Publisher: Brill
Published: Nov 27 2008
Pages: 490
Weight: 2.10
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.50 Depth: 9.50
Language: English
The tension between the book and the body has in recent years attracted the attention of scholars interested in the perception of the body in Judaism and the impact of religious law and performance on the body. The fifteen contributions in this volume deal with perceptions of the Jewish body in a broad range of legal, poetic, mystical, philosophical and polemical early modern Jewish sources.
The first part of the book examines the construction of the body in specific historical and social contexts. Part two discusses normative texts and the notion of an ideal Jewish body. Part three explores body, mind and soul in Jewish philosophy and mysticism. The last section of the book discusses body issues in Jewish-Christian discourse.
The volume includes contributions by Howard Tzvi Adelman, Ruth Berger, Saverio Campanini, Maria Diemling, Eleazar Gutwirth, Don Harrán, Moshe Idel, Sergius Kodera, Arthur M. Lesley, Gianfranco Miletto, Giuseppe Veltri, Roni Weinstein, Elliot R. Wolfson, Jeffrey R. Woolf and Nimrod Zinger.

Maria Diemling and Giuseppe Veltri have assembled an accomplished group of scholars and collected an important store of articles concerning physicality in early modern Jewish culture. Its contents are broad enough to appeal to a wide readership of scholars and students in gender studies, cultural history, intellectual history, anthropology, religious studies, Kabbalah -- even the history of music and art. In spite of this considerable topical and thematic diversity the book avoids losing focus; in one way or another each contribution responds to Diemling and Veltri's organizing question: how did early modern Jews react to the period's increased emphasis on and interest in corporeality? - Andrew Berns, University of Pennsylvania, in: Renaissance Quarterly 63.1 (2010)

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