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Sacred Body: Readings in Jewish Literary Illumination

Sacred Body: Readings in Jewish Literary Illumination

Sabbath, Roberta Sterman

Hardcover

Series: Lexington Studies in Jewish Literature

Literary CriticismJudaism

ISBN10: 1666907960
ISBN13: 9781666907964
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Jun 1 2023
Pages: 216
Weight: 1.08
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Sacred Body: Readings in Jewish Literary Illumination provides fresh and insightful interpretations of Jewish texts, narratives, and cultural practices that show how these artifacts unhinge the sacred from the divine and focus instead on the everyday sacred of a dynamic earthly existence that emphasizes the body, celebrates life-affirming decisions, actions, and relationships, and avoids abstraction, metaphysics, and apocalypticism. Roberta Sabbath argues that a diverse array of Jewish artifacts, from sacred scripture to contemporary novels and ballet performance, articulate a tradition that has existed for millennia in mythic, proto-historic, legalistic, mystical, philosophical, and aesthetic expressions of Jewishness. The author refers to this tradition as Jewish literary illumination, and she deftly demonstrates how it illuminates the most salient message of Judaism: that earthly existence and the body are also the site of the spiritual and the sacred.

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