Grace Aguilar, the Jealous Man, and Imperialism’s ‘Pleasure’
Reading Grace Aguilar on the law of the jealous man (Num. 5:11–31) against Edward Said’s putative anatomy of psychological satisfaction respecting nineteenth-century (Western) depictions of non-European faces and spaces (in Culture and Imperialism ) is the interest of this article. Aguilar’s interpr...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2021
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| In: |
Biblical interpretation
Year: 2021, Volume: 29, Issue: 1, Pages: 25-48 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Bible. Numeri 5,11-31
/ Aguilar, Grace 1816-1847
/ Said, Edward W. 1935-2003
/ History 1800-1900
/ Literature
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| IxTheo Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture HB Old Testament |
| Further subjects: | B
Edward Said
B nineteenth-century biblical interpretation B Sotah B Grace Aguilar B Orientalism B Numbers 5:11–31 |
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| Summary: | Reading Grace Aguilar on the law of the jealous man (Num. 5:11–31) against Edward Said’s putative anatomy of psychological satisfaction respecting nineteenth-century (Western) depictions of non-European faces and spaces (in Culture and Imperialism ) is the interest of this article. Aguilar’s interpretation fits, largely, Said’s paradigm of sclerosed racial differences, cultural interpenetration within contested spaces, and a recovery of a Western perspective in the last. But her conformity to the pattern in the work is troubled by her commitment to a marginal Anglo-Jewish apologetic grounded in the religious ruminations of an ancient Eastern people and literature. Charting a course for her brand of Jewish piety to the center of Victorian religious culture with its moorings in Euro-supremacy, Aguilar remains tethered to her Near Eastern patrimony. She is, in the end, a reluctant imperialist. |
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| ISSN: | 1568-5152 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Biblical interpretation
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685152-00284P23 |