Rabbinic body language : non-verbal communication in Palestinian rabbinic literature of late antiquity / by Catherine Hezser.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hezser, Catherine, 1960- author.

Series:

Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism ; v. 179.

Supplements to the journal for the study of Judaism ; volume 179

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nonverbal communication in rabbinical literature.

Physical Description:

300 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]

Summary:

This study constitutes the first comprehensive examination of rabbinic body language represented in Palestinian rabbinic sources of late antiquity. Catherine Hezser examines rabbis' appearance and demeanor, spatial movement, gestures, and facial expressions on the basis of literary and social-anthropological methods and theories. She discusses the various forms of rabbis' non-verbal communication in the context of Graeco-Roman and ancient Christian literary sources and in connection with the material culture of Roman and early Byzantine Palestine. Catherine Hezser convincingly shows that in rabbinic literature body language serves as an important means of rabbis' self-fashioning. Rabbinic texts create the image of a particularly Jewish type of intellectual who functioned and competed for adherents within the highly visual and body-conscious environment of late antiquity.

Contents:

1 Appearance and Demeanor 24

2 Posture and Spatial Behavior 69

3 Gestures 147

4 Facial Expressions 203

5 Conclusions: Body Language in Rabbinic Literature 244.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-281) and indexes.

Other Format:

Online version: Hezser, Catherine, 1960- author. Rabbinic body language.

ISBN:

9789004339057

9004339051

OCLC:

961003488