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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Main Author: Neis, Rachel (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Penn Press 2012
In: The Jewish quarterly review
Year: 2012, Volume: 102, Issue: 4, Pages: 533-560
Further subjects:B Gaze
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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