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020			_a9781139506380 (ebook)
020			_z9781107032514 (hardback)
040			_aUkCbUP _beng _erda _cUkCbUP
050	0	0	_aBM496.9.V57 _bN45 2013
082	0	0	_a296.1/20815214 _223
100	1		_aNeis, Rachel, _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe Sense of Sight in Rabbinic Culture : _bJewish Ways of Seeing in Late Antiquity / _cRachel Neis.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2013.
300			_a1 online resource (328 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	0		_aGreek Culture in the Roman World
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016).
520			_aThis 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'.
650		0	_aVision in rabbinical literature
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9781107032514
830		0	_aGreek Culture in the Roman World.
856	4	0	_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139506380
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
999			_c37683 _d37683