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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Wasserman, Mira
Titre(s) : Jews, Gentiles, and other animals [Texte imprimé] : the Talmud after the humanities / Mira Beth Wasserman
Publication : Philadelphia (Pa.) : University of Pennsylvania Press, cop. 2017
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (X-314 p.) ; 24 cm
Collection : Divinations : rereading late ancient religion
Lien à la collection : Divinations (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Comprend : A note on sources, usage, and transliteration ; Introduction ; The sense of a beginning
; Jews, Gentiles, and other animals ; Leaky vessels ; Ethics and objects ; The
last laugh ; Notes ; Index ; Acknowledgments.
Note(s) : Notes bibliogr. Index
Mira Beth Wasserman undertakes a close reading of Avoda Zara, arguably the Talmud's
most scandalous tractate, to uncover the hidden architecture of this classic work
of Jewish religious thought. She proposes a new way of reading the Talmud that brings
it into conversation with the humanities, including animal studies, the new materialisms,
and other areas of critical theory that have been reshaping the understanding of what
it is to be a human being. Even as it comments on the rabbinic laws that govern relations
between Jews and non-Jews, Avoda Zara is also an attempt to reflect on what all people
share in common, and on how humans fit into a larger universe of animals and things.
As is typical of the Talmud in general, it proceeds by incorporating a vast and confusing
array of apparently digressive materials, but Wasserman demonstrates that there is
a whole greater than the sum of the parts, a sustained effort to explore human identity
and difference. In centuries past, Avoda Zara has been a flashpoint in Jewish-Christian
relations. It was partly due to its content that the Talmud was subject to burning
and censorship by Christian authorities. Wasserman develops a twenty-first century
reading of the tractate that aims to reposition it as part of a broader quest to understand
what connects human beings to each other and to the world around them
Sujet(s) : Talmud de Babylone. Avodah zarah
Homme (théologie juive)
Gentils (judaïsme) -- Dans la littérature rabbinique
Animaux -- Dans la littérature rabbinique
Religions -- Relations -- Dans la littérature rabbinique
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780812249200 (rel.). - ISBN 0812249208
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb453119567
Notice n° :
FRBNF45311956
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