People of the Body Jews and Judaism from an Embodied Perspective
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Om bidragsyterne
Howard Eilberg-Schwartz is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Stanford University. He is the author of The Savage in Judaism: An Anthology of Israelite Religion and Ancient Judaism (winner of a 1990 American Academy Award for Academic Excellence) as well as The Human Will in Judaism.
<p>"The greatest strength of the book is the issue it poses: the notion that Jews are not simply a people of the book but also a people of the body. This is a dimension of Jewish experience that has been sorely neglected and that the book puts on the agenda of Jewish studies through its consideration of a number of dimensions of the embodiedness of Jewish life." — Judith Plaskow, Manhattan College</p><p>"Eilberg-Schwartz has identified an overlooked area of inquiry and has gathered together a collection of essays that in the aggregate suggests the riches awaiting further inquiry. This is the kind of book which will be cited frequently as a turning point in the development of a crucial research agenda." — Martin S. Jaffee, University of Washington</p>
By shifting attention from the image of Jews as a textual community to the ways Jews understand and manage their bodies - for example, to their concerns with reproduction and sexuality, menstruation and childbirth- this volume contributes to a revisioning of what Jews and Judaism are and have been. The project of re-membering the Jewish body has both historical and constructive motivations. As a constructive project, this book describes, renews, and participates in the complex and ongoing modern discussion about the nature of Jewish bodies and the place of bodies in Judaism.
Acknowledgments
Introduction: People of the Body
1. The Problem of the Body for the People of the Book
Howard Eilberg-Schwartz
2. The Garden of Eden and Sexuality in Early Judaism
Gary Anderson
3. The Great Fat Massacre: Sex, Death, and the Grotesque Body in the Talmud
Daniel Boyarin
4. Mizvot Built into the Body: Tkhines for Niddah, Pregnancy, and Childbirth
Chava Weissler
5. Purifying the Body in the Name of the Soul: The Problem of the Body in Sixteenth-Century Kabbalah
Lawrence Fine
6. Images of God's Feet: Some Observations on the Divine Body in Judaism
Elliot R. Wolfson
7. God's Body: Theological and Ritual Roles of Shi'ur Komah
Naomi Janowitz
8. The Body Never Lies: The Body in Medieval Jewish Folk Narratives
Eli Yasif
9. The Jewish Body: A Foot-note
Sander Gilman
10. (G)nos(e)ology: The Cultural Construction of the Other
Jay Geller
11. Zionism as an Erotic Revolution
David Biale
12. Menstruation and Identity: The Meaning of Niddah for Moroccan Women Immigrants to Israel
Rahel Wasserfall
13. Why Jewish Princesses Don't Sweat: Desire and Consumption in Postwar American Jewish Culture
Riv-Ellen Prell
14. Challenging Male/Female Complementarity: Jewish Lesbians and the Jewish Tradition
Rebecca Alpert
Contributors
Index
Produktdetaljer
Om bidragsyterne
Howard Eilberg-Schwartz is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Stanford University. He is the author of The Savage in Judaism: An Anthology of Israelite Religion and Ancient Judaism (winner of a 1990 American Academy Award for Academic Excellence) as well as The Human Will in Judaism.