Eyeing Idols: Rabbinic Viewing Practices in Late Antiquity
This article introduces a new perspective, the history of vision, into the study of rabbinic literature. Specifically it examines how the rabbinic visual regime dealt with those objects and images that it designated as idols. It argues that rabbis took seeing seriously and that they developed a set...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Penn Press
2012
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The Jewish quarterly review
Year: 2012, Volume: 102, Issue: 4, Pages: 533-560 |
Further subjects: | B
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B Vision B Images B Christian B Late Antiquity B Iconoclasm B Visuality B Idolatry B Greco-Roman B Rabbinic Literature |
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