Sacred body : readings in jewish literary illumination / Roberta Sterman Sabbath.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sabbath, Roberta Sterman, author.

Series:

Lexington Studies in Jewish Literature Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish literature--History and criticism.

Jewish literature.

Human body in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (217 pages)

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2023]

Summary:

Sacred Body analyzes exemplary Jewish texts, narratives, and cultural practices that show how these artifacts unhinge the "sacred" from the divine and focus instead on the "everyday sacred," earthly existence in order to celebrate life-affirming decisions, actions, and relationships, and avoid abstraction, metaphysics, and apocalypticism.

Contents:

Introduction Jewish Literary Illumination and the Earthly Body: Storytelling, Irony, and the Everyday Sacred

Biblical Emigrants: Human Agency in Eve, Abraham, Sarah

Sexuality, Martyrdom, and Suicide in the Talmud: Life Force and Death by Choice From Hekhalot to Kabbalah: Accessing the Body of God

Wonder and the Jewish Enlightenment: False Messiahs, Philosophers, and Social Justice

Twenty-First Century Narratives of Jewish Identity: The Schlemiel and the Messianic in Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policemen's Union and Nicole Krauss's Forest Dark

Twenty-First Century Epic Theater and Eclectic Choreography in Margot Mink Colbert's Ballet Transit(ion): Emigration Transformation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-66690-797-9

OCLC:

1380467067