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Jacqueline Vayntrub's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 8 years ago
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Jacqueline Vayntrub's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 8 years, 1 month ago
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Geoffrey Claussen's profile was updated on AJS Commons 8 years, 2 months ago
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Yael Landman deposited “The Many Bailments of David: A Case Study in Law and Literature” in the group
Biblical Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months agoIn his landmark essay “Nomos and Narrative,” Robert Cover argues that “[law] may be viewed as a system or a bridge linking a concept of a reality to an imagined alternative – that is, as a connective between two states of affairs, both of which can be represented in their normative significance only through the devices of narrati…[Read more]
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Yael Landman deposited “The Many Bailments of David: A Case Study in Law and Literature” on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months ago
In his landmark essay “Nomos and Narrative,” Robert Cover argues that “[law] may be viewed as a system or a bridge linking a concept of a reality to an imagined alternative – that is, as a connective between two states of affairs, both of which can be represented in their normative significance only through the devices of narrati…[Read more]
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Jacqueline Vayntrub deposited Anne W. Stewart. Poetic Ethics in Proverbs: Wisdom Literature and the Shaping of the Moral Self. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. 247 pp. on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months ago
A review of Stewart, Poetic Ethics in Proverbs: Wisdom Literature and the Shaping of the Moral Self (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) 2016
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Jacqueline Vayntrub's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months ago
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Adoption was extant as a legal institution in the ancient Near East and Mediterranean world. In most cases, the adoptee acquired the rights of a natural born child, especially to an inheritance, but in some cases, the adoptee obtained lesser rights than natural born children. Generally, adoptions created the bond of parent and child, but other kin…[Read more]
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Pamela Barmash deposited “Achieving Justice Through Narrative in the Bible: The Limitations of Law in the Legal Potential of Literature,” Zeitschrift für Altorientalische und Biblische Rechtsgeschichte 20 (2014): 181-199. on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months ago
Narrative aspires to moral justice, a justice in which hurts are acknowledged, offenders acknowledge the fault of their actions, and relationships are restored. The goal of narrative is ethical and spiritual relief, and the concern is with the victim, rather than the offender. By focusing on the victim, narrative is concerned with the harm…[Read more]
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Pamela Barmash's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months ago
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Rachel Neis deposited Embracing Icons: The Face of Jacob on the Throne of God in the group
Rabbinic Literature and Culture on AJS Commons 8 years, 3 months agoRachel Neis’ article treats Hekhalot Rabbati, a collection of early Jewish mystical traditions, and more specifically §§ 152–169, a series of Qedusha hymns. These hymns are liturgical performances, the highlight of which is God’s passionate embrace of the Jacob icon on his throne as triggered by Israel’s utterance of the Qedusha. §§ 152–1…[Read more]
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Rachel Neis deposited Embracing Icons: The Face of Jacob on the Throne of God in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months agoRachel Neis’ article treats Hekhalot Rabbati, a collection of early Jewish mystical traditions, and more specifically §§ 152–169, a series of Qedusha hymns. These hymns are liturgical performances, the highlight of which is God’s passionate embrace of the Jacob icon on his throne as triggered by Israel’s utterance of the Qedusha. §§ 152–1…[Read more]
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Rachel Neis deposited Embracing Icons: The Face of Jacob on the Throne of God in the group
Jewish Mysticism on AJS Commons 8 years, 3 months agoRachel Neis’ article treats Hekhalot Rabbati, a collection of early Jewish mystical traditions, and more specifically §§ 152–169, a series of Qedusha hymns. These hymns are liturgical performances, the highlight of which is God’s passionate embrace of the Jacob icon on his throne as triggered by Israel’s utterance of the Qedusha. §§ 152–1…[Read more]
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Rachel Neis deposited Embracing Icons: The Face of Jacob on the Throne of God in the group
Jewish History and Culture in Antiquity on AJS Commons 8 years, 3 months agoRachel Neis’ article treats Hekhalot Rabbati, a collection of early Jewish mystical traditions, and more specifically §§ 152–169, a series of Qedusha hymns. These hymns are liturgical performances, the highlight of which is God’s passionate embrace of the Jacob icon on his throne as triggered by Israel’s utterance of the Qedusha. §§ 152–1…[Read more]
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Rachel Neis deposited Embracing Icons: The Face of Jacob on the Throne of God in the group
Bible and the History of Biblical Interpretation on AJS Commons 8 years, 3 months agoRachel Neis’ article treats Hekhalot Rabbati, a collection of early Jewish mystical traditions, and more specifically §§ 152–169, a series of Qedusha hymns. These hymns are liturgical performances, the highlight of which is God’s passionate embrace of the Jacob icon on his throne as triggered by Israel’s utterance of the Qedusha. §§ 152–1…[Read more]
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Chaya Halberstam deposited The Legal Language of Everyday Life in Rabbinic Religion on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months ago
Drawing on Robert Orsi’s view of lived religion, this chapter proposes that the discourse of law served as a vehicle in rabbinic religion to mediate relationships between heaven and earth. It argues that religious-legal practice is most similar, in Late Antiquity, to the practice of divination: an ordinary social institution that shaped human l…[Read more]
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Chaya Halberstam changed their profile picture on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months ago
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Chaya Halberstam changed their profile picture on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months ago
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Rachel Neis deposited Embracing Icons: The Face of Jacob on the Throne of God on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months ago
Rachel Neis’ article treats Hekhalot Rabbati, a collection of early Jewish mystical traditions, and more specifically §§ 152–169, a series of Qedusha hymns. These hymns are liturgical performances, the highlight of which is God’s passionate embrace of the Jacob icon on his throne as triggered by Israel’s utterance of the Qedusha. §§ 152–1…[Read more]
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Jacqueline Vayntrub deposited Transmission and Mortal Anxiety in the Tale of Aqhat in the group
Hebrew Bible / Old Testament on Humanities Commons 8 years, 4 months agoForthcoming in Like ʾIlu Are You Wise: Studies in Northwest Semitic Languages and Literature in Honor of Dennis G. Pardee, Oriental Institute Publications.
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