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The Legal Language of Everyday Life in Rabbinic Religion
- Author(s):
- Chaya Halberstam (see profile)
- Date:
- 2017
- Subject(s):
- Religions, Civilization, Greco-Roman, Jews--Study and teaching, Religion, Civilization, Classical, History, Ancient
- Item Type:
- Book chapter
- Tag(s):
- ancient law, Divination, Jewish law, religious experience, Greco-Roman religion, Jewish studies, Religions of late Antiquity, Religious studies, Talmud, Midrash, and Rabbinics
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6C79C
- Abstract:
- Drawing on Robert Orsi’s view of lived religion, this chapter proposes that the discourse of law served as a vehicle in rabbinic religion to mediate relationships between heaven and earth. It argues that religious-legal practice is most similar, in Late Antiquity, to the practice of divination: an ordinary social institution that shaped human life by staging encounters with the sacred. Religious law too organized human daily activity around the divine will, making sacred presence apparent and felt in the bodies and inner lives of practitioners.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Book chapter Show details
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Pub. Date:
- 2017
- Book Title:
- Religious Studies and Rabbinics: A Conversation
- Author/Editor:
- Elizabeth Shanks Alexander, Beth A. Berkowitz
- Chapter:
- 7
- Page Range:
- 121 - 138
- ISBN:
- 1138288802
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 6 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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