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  • Interspecies and Cross-species Generation:

    Author(s):
    Rachel Rafael Neis
    Date:
    2018
    Group(s):
    Ancient Jew Review, Late Antiquity, Rabbinic Literature and Culture, Religious Studies, Science Studies and the History of Science
    Subject(s):
    Animals--Study and teaching, Science--Study and teaching, Technology--Study and teaching, Jews--Study and teaching, Disability studies, Zoology, History
    Item Type:
    Book chapter
    Tag(s):
    classification, reproduction, Animal studies, STS, Hybridity, Posthumanism, Jewish studies, History of zoology, Gender

  • "All that is in the Settlement" : Humans, Likeness, and Species in the Rabbinic Bestiary

    Author(s):
    Rachel Rafael Neis
    Date:
    2019
    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, Judaism, Animals--Study and teaching, Science, History, Civilization, Classical, History, Ancient, Christianity
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    likeness, anthropocentrism, Rabbinics, Animal studies, History of science, Religious studies, Late Antiquity, Posthumanism

  • When Species Meet in the Mishnah

    Author(s):
    Rachel Rafael Neis
    Date:
    2018
    Group(s):
    Biblical Studies, Interdisciplinary, Theoretical and New Approaches to Jewish Studies, Late Antiquity, Religious Studies, Science Studies and the History of Science
    Subject(s):
    Animals--Study and teaching, Disability studies, Jews--Study and teaching, Rabbinical literature--Study and teaching, Reproduction--Philosophy, Zoology, History, Religion
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Biology, generation, Animal studies, Jewish studies, Rabbinics, Reproduction theory, Images, History of zoology

  • Directing the Heart: Early Rabbinic Language and the Anatomy of Ritual Space

    Author(s):
    Rachel Rafael Neis
    Date:
    2018
    Group(s):
    Biblical Studies, Jewish History and Culture in Antiquity, Late Antiquity, Rabbinic Literature and Culture, Religious Studies
    Subject(s):
    Jews--Study and teaching, Civilization, Classical, History, Ancient, Rabbinical literature--Study and teaching, Religion, History, Ritual, Space (Architecture)
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Prayer, rabbis, Jewish studies, Late Antiquity, Religious studies, Rabbinics, History of religion, Spatiality

  • The Reproduction of Species: Humans, Animals and Species Nonconformity in Early Rabbinic Science

    Author(s):
    Rachel Rafael Neis
    Date:
    2017
    Group(s):
    Biblical Studies, Jewish History and Culture in Antiquity, Late Antiquity, Religious Studies, Science Studies and the History of Science
    Subject(s):
    Science, History, Animals--Study and teaching, Disability studies, History, Ancient, Jews--Study and teaching
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    reproduction, species, Science and Religion, Talmud, Midrash, and Rabbinics, History of science, Religious studies, Animal studies, Ancient history, Jewish studies

  • Pilgrimage Itineraries: Seeing the Past through Rabbinic Eyes

    Author(s):
    Rachel Rafael Neis
    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

  • Eyeing Idols: Rabbinic Viewing Practices in Late Antiquity

    Author(s):
    Rachel Rafael Neis
    Date:
    2012
    Group(s):
    Interdisciplinary, Theoretical and New Approaches to Jewish Studies, Jewish History and Culture in Antiquity, Late Antiquity, Rabbinic Literature and Culture, Religious Studies
    Subject(s):
    Civilization, Classical, History, Ancient, Jews--Study and teaching, Rabbinical literature--Study and teaching
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    idolatry, sight, the body, Visual culture, Senses in antiquity, Late Antiquity, Jewish studies, Rabbinics, Images, Ancient history

  • ‘Their Backs toward the Temple, and Their Faces toward the East:’ The Temple and Toilet Practices in Rabbinic Palestine and Babylonia

    Author(s):
    Rachel Rafael Neis
    Date:
    2012
    Group(s):
    Biblical Studies, Interdisciplinary, Theoretical and New Approaches to Jewish Studies, Jewish History and Culture in Antiquity, Rabbinic Literature and Culture, Religious Studies
    Subject(s):
    Rabbinical literature--Study and teaching, Place (Philosophy), Space, Ritual, Geography, Ancient, History, Ancient, Jews--Study and teaching, Civilization, Classical
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    the body, Rabbinics, Space and place, Talmud, Midrash, and Rabbinics, Ancient geography, Ancient history, Religious studies, Jewish studies, Late Antiquity

  • The Seduction of Law: Rethinking Legal Studies in Jewish Studies

    Author(s):
    Rachel Rafael Neis
    Date:
    2019
    Group(s):
    Historiography, Interdisciplinary, Theoretical and New Approaches to Jewish Studies, Legal history, Rabbinic Literature and Culture, Religious Studies
    Subject(s):
    Law, Jews--Study and teaching, Imperialism, History
    Item Type:
    Essay
    Tag(s):
    halakhah, rabbinic literature, legalism, roman law, Jewish law, Religious studies, Jewish studies, Legal history

  • Religious Lives of Image-Things, Avodah Zarah, and Rabbis in Late Antique Palestine

    Author(s):
    Rachel Neis
    Date:
    2016
    Group(s):
    Ancient Greece & Rome, Interdisciplinary, Theoretical and New Approaches to Jewish Studies, Jewish Studies, Late Antiquity, Religious Studies
    Subject(s):
    History, Ancient, Jewish law, Law, Ancient, Art, History, Material culture
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    idolatry, jewishstudies, rabbis, romans, Ancient history, Ancient Jewish law, Art history, Talmud, Midrash, and Rabbinics, Images

  • Embracing Icons: The Face of Jacob on the Throne of God

    Author(s):
    Rachel Neis
    Date:
    2010
    Group(s):
    Bible and the History of Biblical Interpretation, Jewish History and Culture in Antiquity, Jewish Mysticism, Late Antiquity, Rabbinic Literature and Culture
    Subject(s):
    Art, Byzantine, Church history--Primitive and early church, Mysticism--Judaism, Religion, Civilization, Classical, History, Ancient
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Early Christianity, Hekhalot Literature, Iconoclasm, Jewish mysticism, Late antiquity, Byzantine art, Religions of late Antiquity, Talmud, Midrash, and Rabbinics

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