Grégoire Espesset
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Rachel Rafael Neis deposited ‘Their Backs toward the Temple, and Their Faces toward the East:’ The Temple and Toilet Practices in Rabbinic Palestine and Babylonia in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThis article treats the cultural meaning of rabbinic toilet rules from their Tannaitic instantiation through to later developments in Palestine and Mesopotamia. It argues that these rules draw their corporeal and mental bearings from the Jerusalem temple, in inverse and opposite directions to prayer deportment. It shows how the juxtaposition of…[Read more]
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Rachel Rafael Neis deposited ‘Their Backs toward the Temple, and Their Faces toward the East:’ The Temple and Toilet Practices in Rabbinic Palestine and Babylonia in the group
Rabbinic Literature and Culture on AJS Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThis article treats the cultural meaning of rabbinic toilet rules from their Tannaitic instantiation through to later developments in Palestine and Mesopotamia. It argues that these rules draw their corporeal and mental bearings from the Jerusalem temple, in inverse and opposite directions to prayer deportment. It shows how the juxtaposition of…[Read more]
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Rachel Rafael Neis deposited ‘Their Backs toward the Temple, and Their Faces toward the East:’ The Temple and Toilet Practices in Rabbinic Palestine and Babylonia in the group
Jewish History and Culture in Antiquity on AJS Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThis article treats the cultural meaning of rabbinic toilet rules from their Tannaitic instantiation through to later developments in Palestine and Mesopotamia. It argues that these rules draw their corporeal and mental bearings from the Jerusalem temple, in inverse and opposite directions to prayer deportment. It shows how the juxtaposition of…[Read more]
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Rachel Rafael Neis deposited ‘Their Backs toward the Temple, and Their Faces toward the East:’ The Temple and Toilet Practices in Rabbinic Palestine and Babylonia in the group
Interdisciplinary, Theoretical and New Approaches to Jewish Studies on AJS Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThis article treats the cultural meaning of rabbinic toilet rules from their Tannaitic instantiation through to later developments in Palestine and Mesopotamia. It argues that these rules draw their corporeal and mental bearings from the Jerusalem temple, in inverse and opposite directions to prayer deportment. It shows how the juxtaposition of…[Read more]
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Rachel Rafael Neis deposited ‘Their Backs toward the Temple, and Their Faces toward the East:’ The Temple and Toilet Practices in Rabbinic Palestine and Babylonia in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThis article treats the cultural meaning of rabbinic toilet rules from their Tannaitic instantiation through to later developments in Palestine and Mesopotamia. It argues that these rules draw their corporeal and mental bearings from the Jerusalem temple, in inverse and opposite directions to prayer deportment. It shows how the juxtaposition of…[Read more]
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Rachel Rafael Neis deposited Eyeing Idols: Rabbinic Viewing Practices in Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 6 years, 10 months ago
This article introduces a new perspective, the history of vision, into the study of rabbinic literature. Specifically it examines how rabbinic visual regimes dealt with those objects and images that it designated as idols. It argues that rabbis took seeing seriously and that they developed a set of strategies to shape the viewing of problematic…[Read more]
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Rachel Rafael Neis deposited ‘Their Backs toward the Temple, and Their Faces toward the East:’ The Temple and Toilet Practices in Rabbinic Palestine and Babylonia on Humanities Commons 6 years, 10 months ago
This article treats the cultural meaning of rabbinic toilet rules from their Tannaitic instantiation through to later developments in Palestine and Mesopotamia. It argues that these rules draw their corporeal and mental bearings from the Jerusalem temple, in inverse and opposite directions to prayer deportment. It shows how the juxtaposition of…[Read more]
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Rachel Rafael Neis deposited The Seduction of Law: Rethinking Legal Studies in Jewish Studies in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThis essay considers the category of “Jewish law” in Jewish studies while inviting scholarly and historiographic assessment of the ways that Judaism’s link to law has come to appear as obvious. Considering that our present concepts of law are invariably linked to a geographically and temporally parochial “mythology of modern law,” the essay sounds…[Read more]
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Rachel Rafael Neis deposited The Seduction of Law: Rethinking Legal Studies in Jewish Studies in the group
Rabbinic Literature and Culture on AJS Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThis essay considers the category of “Jewish law” in Jewish studies while inviting scholarly and historiographic assessment of the ways that Judaism’s link to law has come to appear as obvious. Considering that our present concepts of law are invariably linked to a geographically and temporally parochial “mythology of modern law,” the essay sounds…[Read more]
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Rachel Rafael Neis deposited The Seduction of Law: Rethinking Legal Studies in Jewish Studies in the group
Legal history on Humanities Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThis essay considers the category of “Jewish law” in Jewish studies while inviting scholarly and historiographic assessment of the ways that Judaism’s link to law has come to appear as obvious. Considering that our present concepts of law are invariably linked to a geographically and temporally parochial “mythology of modern law,” the essay sounds…[Read more]
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Rachel Rafael Neis deposited The Seduction of Law: Rethinking Legal Studies in Jewish Studies in the group
Interdisciplinary, Theoretical and New Approaches to Jewish Studies on AJS Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThis essay considers the category of “Jewish law” in Jewish studies while inviting scholarly and historiographic assessment of the ways that Judaism’s link to law has come to appear as obvious. Considering that our present concepts of law are invariably linked to a geographically and temporally parochial “mythology of modern law,” the essay sounds…[Read more]
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Rachel Rafael Neis deposited The Seduction of Law: Rethinking Legal Studies in Jewish Studies in the group
Historiography on Humanities Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThis essay considers the category of “Jewish law” in Jewish studies while inviting scholarly and historiographic assessment of the ways that Judaism’s link to law has come to appear as obvious. Considering that our present concepts of law are invariably linked to a geographically and temporally parochial “mythology of modern law,” the essay sounds…[Read more]
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Rachel Rafael Neis deposited The Seduction of Law: Rethinking Legal Studies in Jewish Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 10 months ago
This essay considers the category of “Jewish law” in Jewish studies while inviting scholarly and historiographic assessment of the ways that Judaism’s link to law has come to appear as obvious. Considering that our present concepts of law are invariably linked to a geographically and temporally parochial “mythology of modern law,” the essay sounds…[Read more]
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Frederik Elwert deposited Gods, graves and graphs – social and semantic network analysis based on Ancient Egyptian and Indian corpora in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 10 months agoIn this paper, the authors show the application and use of automated text network analysis based on ancient corpora. The examples draw from Ancient Egyptian sources and the Indian Mahābhārata. Different text-based network generation algorithms like “Nubbi” or “Textplot” are presented in order to showcase alternative methodological approache…[Read more]
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Frederik Elwert deposited Gods, graves and graphs – social and semantic network analysis based on Ancient Egyptian and Indian corpora in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 6 years, 10 months agoIn this paper, the authors show the application and use of automated text network analysis based on ancient corpora. The examples draw from Ancient Egyptian sources and the Indian Mahābhārata. Different text-based network generation algorithms like “Nubbi” or “Textplot” are presented in order to showcase alternative methodological approache…[Read more]
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Frederik Elwert deposited Network Analysis Between Distant Reading and Close Reading on Humanities Commons 6 years, 10 months ago
The advent of “distant reading” methods has created the opportunity to look at texts in a new way. But with the shift from close to distant reading, there is also a danger of loosing sight of fine-grained text structure. Like any method, distant reading methodology is not theoretically neutral, but carries a bundle of presuppositions. In this pap…[Read more]
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Frederik Elwert deposited Gods, graves and graphs – social and semantic network analysis based on Ancient Egyptian and Indian corpora on Humanities Commons 6 years, 10 months ago
In this paper, the authors show the application and use of automated text network analysis based on ancient corpora. The examples draw from Ancient Egyptian sources and the Indian Mahābhārata. Different text-based network generation algorithms like “Nubbi” or “Textplot” are presented in order to showcase alternative methodological approache…[Read more]
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Rafael Neis's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months ago
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Gary Hall deposited Cities of InfraRed in the group
Political Philosophy & Theory on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months agoCities of InfraRed is an abstract for my proposed contribution to a book that is being put together by Cornelia Sollfrank, Shuhsa Niederberger and Felix Stalder. The book has the working title of Aesthetics of the Commons, and arises out of the Creating Commons research project at the Zurich University of the Arts.
A version of Cities of…[Read more]
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Gary Hall deposited Cities of InfraRed in the group
Networked Art on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months agoCities of InfraRed is an abstract for my proposed contribution to a book that is being put together by Cornelia Sollfrank, Shuhsa Niederberger and Felix Stalder. The book has the working title of Aesthetics of the Commons, and arises out of the Creating Commons research project at the Zurich University of the Arts.
A version of Cities of…[Read more]
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