The Jewish Body: Corporeality, Society, and Identity in the Renaissance and E

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The Jewish Body: Corporeality, Society, and Identity in the Renaissance and Early Modern Period (Studies in Jewish History and Culture)
Brill Academic Publishers (February 28, 2009) | ISBN: 9004167188 | 488 pages | PDF | 10 MB

The tension between the \"book\" and the \"body\" has in recent years attracted the attention of scholars interested in the perception of the body in Judaism and the impact of religious law and performance on the body. The fifteen contributions in this volume deal with perceptions of the \"Jewish body\" in a broad range of legal, poetic, mystical, philosophical and polemical early modern Jewish sources. The first part of the book examines the construction of the body in specific historical and social contexts. Part two discusses normative texts and the notion of an \"ideal Jewish body.\" Part three explores body, mind and soul in Jewish philosophy and mysticism. The last section of the book discusses body issues in Jewish-Christian discourse. The volume includes contributions by both scholars with an outstanding international reputation, such as Don Harran, Eleazar Gutwirth, Moshe Idel and Elliot R. Wolfson, and a younger generation, employing a variety of methodological approaches.

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