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Pilgrimage Itineraries: Seeing the Past through Rabbinic Eyes
- Author(s):
- Rachel Rafael Neis (see profile)
- Date:
- 2013
- Group(s):
- Biblical Studies, Jewish History and Culture in Antiquity, Late Antiquity, Rabbinic Literature and Culture, Religious Studies
- Subject(s):
- Rabbinical literature--Study and teaching, Jews--Study and teaching, Pilgrims and pilgrimages, Religion, Civilization, Classical, History, Ancient, Talmud, Church history--Primitive and early church
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- visuality, Rabbinics, Jewish studies, Religious studies, Pilgrimage, Religions of late Antiquity, Performance, Early Christianity, Ancient history
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/pkxq-2349
- Abstract:
- This article makes several claims. It argues that the genre of “pilgrim's literature” is present in rabbinic sources, and identifies rabbinic pilgrimage itineraries. Secondly, it shows that aside from the expected melancholic post-Temple itinerary, there exist itineraries for Babylon and for biblical conquest that do a very different kind of visual and affective work. Furthermore, like Christian and Greco-Roman pilgrimage writings, these rabbinic itineraries seek to visualize the past (and sometimes the future) in the landscape. The article reads these rabbinic itineraries not as sources through which to reconstruct a history of actual travel, but rather as mediations and techniques in and of themselves, through which the past was made visible. Related to this is how, like many Greco-Roman and Christian writings, these rabbinic sources thematize sight. However – and this is linked again to textuality – these sources almost always call for the performance of vision through liturgical or scriptural acts of recitation.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Journal article
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 4 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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