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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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Rafael Neis's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months ago
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Rachel Neis deposited Generating Bodies of Knowledge – Food, Family, Fetus in Rabbinic Science in the group
Rabbinic Literature and Culture on AJS Commons 7 years, 3 months agoABSTRACT: How to understand the processes, by which bodies ingest, gestate, generate, excrete, and expel various kinds of substances? This paper treats these questions as sorted through in rabbinic texts. The ways in which we think about how material bodies come into being, and the ways in which we distinguish and explain the emergence, entry, and…[Read more]
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Rachel Neis deposited Generating Bodies of Knowledge – Food, Family, Fetus in Rabbinic Science in the group
Jewish History and Culture in Antiquity on AJS Commons 7 years, 3 months agoABSTRACT: How to understand the processes, by which bodies ingest, gestate, generate, excrete, and expel various kinds of substances? This paper treats these questions as sorted through in rabbinic texts. The ways in which we think about how material bodies come into being, and the ways in which we distinguish and explain the emergence, entry, and…[Read more]
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Rafael Neis's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 7 years, 3 months ago
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Rachel Neis deposited Religious Lives of Image-Things, Avodah Zarah, and Rabbis in Late Antique Palestine in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 7 years, 4 months agoDrawing on rabbinic sources redacted in the early third and late fourth/ early fifth centuries, this paper tracks the intertwined lives of divine image-things and rabbis living in late Roman and Byzantine period Palestine. The paper argues that the religious image-things of others (or avodah zarah, in rabbinic terms) pressed in different ways on…[Read more]
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Rachel Neis deposited Religious Lives of Image-Things, Avodah Zarah, and Rabbis in Late Antique Palestine in the group
Late Antiquity on Humanities Commons 7 years, 4 months agoDrawing on rabbinic sources redacted in the early third and late fourth/ early fifth centuries, this paper tracks the intertwined lives of divine image-things and rabbis living in late Roman and Byzantine period Palestine. The paper argues that the religious image-things of others (or avodah zarah, in rabbinic terms) pressed in different ways on…[Read more]
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Rachel Neis deposited Religious Lives of Image-Things, Avodah Zarah, and Rabbis in Late Antique Palestine in the group
Interdisciplinary, Theoretical and New Approaches to Jewish Studies on AJS Commons 7 years, 4 months agoDrawing on rabbinic sources redacted in the early third and late fourth/ early fifth centuries, this paper tracks the intertwined lives of divine image-things and rabbis living in late Roman and Byzantine period Palestine. The paper argues that the religious image-things of others (or avodah zarah, in rabbinic terms) pressed in different ways on…[Read more]
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Rachel Neis deposited Religious Lives of Image-Things, Avodah Zarah, and Rabbis in Late Antique Palestine in the group
Ancient Greece & Rome on Humanities Commons 7 years, 4 months agoDrawing on rabbinic sources redacted in the early third and late fourth/ early fifth centuries, this paper tracks the intertwined lives of divine image-things and rabbis living in late Roman and Byzantine period Palestine. The paper argues that the religious image-things of others (or avodah zarah, in rabbinic terms) pressed in different ways on…[Read more]
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Rachel Neis deposited Religious Lives of Image-Things, Avodah Zarah, and Rabbis in Late Antique Palestine on Humanities Commons 7 years, 4 months ago
Drawing on rabbinic sources redacted in the early third and late fourth/ early fifth centuries, this paper tracks the intertwined lives of divine image-things and rabbis living in late Roman and Byzantine period Palestine. The paper argues that the religious image-things of others (or avodah zarah, in rabbinic terms) pressed in different ways on…[Read more]
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Rafael Neis's profile was updated on Humanities Commons 7 years, 4 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, 2 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, 2 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, 2 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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