TY  - BOOK
AU  - Neis,Rachel
TI  - The Sense of Sight in Rabbinic Culture: Jewish Ways of Seeing in Late Antiquity 
T2  - Greek Culture in the Roman World
SN  - 9781139506380 (ebook)
AV  - BM496.9.V57 N45 2013
U1  - 296.1/20815214 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Vision in rabbinical literature
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016)
N2  - This book studies the significance of sight in rabbinic cultures across Palestine and Mesopotamia (approximately first to seventh centuries). It tracks the extent and effect to which the rabbis living in the Greco-Roman and Persian worlds sought to appropriate, recast and discipline contemporaneous understandings of sight. Sight had a crucial role to play in the realms of divinity, sexuality and gender, idolatry and, ultimately, rabbinic subjectivity. The rabbis lived in a world in which the eyes were at once potent and vulnerable: eyes were thought to touch objects of vision, while also acting as an entryway into the viewer. Rabbis, Romans, Zoroastrians, Christians and others were all concerned with the protection and exploitation of vision. Employing many different sources, Professor Neis considers how the rabbis engaged varieties of late antique visualities, along with rabbinic narrative, exegetical and legal strategies, as part of an effort to cultivate and mark a 'rabbinic eye'
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139506380
ER  -