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Overview"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 Howard Tzvi Adelman, Ruth Berger, Saverio Campanini, Maria Diemling, Eleazar Gutwirth, Don Harrán, Moshe Idel, Sergius Kodera, Arthur M. Lesley, Gianfranco Miletto, Giuseppe Veltri, Roni Weinstein, Elliot R. Wolfson, Jeffrey R. Woolf and Nimrod Zinger. ""Maria Diemling and Giuseppe Veltri have assembled an accomplished group of scholars and collected an important store of articles concerning physicality in early modern Jewish culture. Its contents are broad enough to appeal to a wide readership of scholars and students in gender studies, cultural history, intellectual history, anthropology, religious studies, Kabbalah — even the history of music and art. In spite of this considerable topical and thematic diversity the book avoids losing focus; in one way or another each contribution responds to Diemling and Veltri’s organizing question: how did early modern Jews react to the period’s increased emphasis on and interest in corporeality?"" - Andrew Berns, University of Pennsylvania, in: Renaissance Quarterly 63.1 (2010)" Full Product DetailsAuthor: Maria Diemling , Giuseppe VeltriPublisher: Brill Imprint: Brill Volume: 17 Dimensions: Width: 16.00cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 24.00cm Weight: 1.008kg ISBN: 9789004167186ISBN 10: 9004167188 Pages: 490 Publication Date: 27 November 2008 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsCONTENTS Introduction PART 1 THE BODY IN HISTORICAL AND SOCIAL CONTEXT The Rise of the Body in Early Modern Jewish Society: The Italian Case Study Roni Weinstein Jewish Bodies and Renaissance Melancholy: Culture and the City in Italy and the Ottoman Empire Eleazar Gutwirth “Den ikh bin treyfe gevezn”: Body Perceptions in Seventeenth-Century Jewish Autobiographical Texts Maria Diemling “Who Knows What the Cause Is?”: “Natural” and “Unnatural” Causes for Illness in the Writings of Baʻalei Shem, Doctors and Patients among German Jews in the Eighteenth Century Nimrod Zinger PART II THE HALAKHIC BODY “Laʻavodat Bor’o”: The Body in the Shul.han Arukh of R. Joseph Caro Jeffrey R. Woolf Virginity: Women’s Body as a State of Mind: Destiny Becomes Biology Howard Tzvi Adelman Mental and Bodily Malfunctioning in Marriage: Evidence from Sixteenth- and Early Seventeenth-Century Responsa from the Ottoman Empire and Poland Ruth Berger PART III BODY, MIND AND SOUL On the Performing Body in Theosophical-Theurgical Kabbalah: Some Preliminary Remarks Moshe Idel Giving Birth to the Hebrew Author: Two Compositions by Johanan Alemanno Arthur M. Lesley The Idea of Beauty in Leone Ebreo (Judah Abravanel) Sergius Kodera Body of Conversion and the Immortality of the Soul: The “Beautiful Jewess” Sara Copio Sullam Giuseppe Veltri PART IV THE BODY IN JEWISH-CHRISTIAN DISCOURSE Shaping the Body of the Godhead: The Adaptation of the Androgynous Motif in Early Christian Kabbalah Saverio Campanini The Human Body as a Musical Instrument in the Sermons of Judah Moscato Gianfranco Miletto Angelic Embodiment and the Feminine Representation of Jesus: Reconstructing Carnality in the Christian Kabbalah of Johann Kemper Elliot R. Wolfson “Adonai con voi” (1569), a Simple Popular Song with a Complicated Semantic about (what seems to be) Circumcision Don HarránReviewsMaria Diemling and Giuseppe Veltri have assembled an accomplished group of scholars and collected an important store of articles concerning physicality in early modern Jewish culture. Its contents are broad enough to appeal to a wide readership of scholars and students in gender studies, cultural history, intellectual history, anthropology, religious studies, Kabbalah - even the history of music and art. In spite of this considerable topical and thematic diversity the book avoids losing focus; in one way or another each contribution responds to Diemling and Veltri's organizing question: how did early modern Jews react to the period's increased emphasis on and interest in corporeality? - Andrew Berns, University of Pennsylvania, in: Renaissance Quarterly 63.1 (2010) """Maria Diemling and Giuseppe Veltri have assembled an accomplished group of scholars and collected an important store of articles concerning physicality in early modern Jewish culture. Its contents are broad enough to appeal to a wide readership of scholars and students in gender studies, cultural history, intellectual history, anthropology, religious studies, Kabbalah — even the history of music and art. In spite of this considerable topical and thematic diversity the book avoids losing focus; in one way or another each contribution responds to Diemling and Veltri’s organizing question: how did early modern Jews react to the period’s increased emphasis on and interest in corporeality?"" - Andrew Berns, University of Pennsylvania, in: Renaissance Quarterly 63.1 (2010)" Author Information"Maria Diemling, Dr. Phil. (1999) in History, University of Vienna, is Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies at Canterbury Christ Church University, Kent, United Kingdom. She has published on Jewish-Christian relations in the Early Modern Period with a particular interest in conversions and images of the body. Giuseppe Veltri, PhD. (1991), Free University of Berlin is professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Halle (Germany) and Director of the Zunz Centre. He has published on Jewish hermeneutics, philosophy, magic, folklore, Renaissance studies including Eine Tora für den König Talmai (1994), Magie und Halakha (1997), Gegenwart der Tradition (2002), Cultural Intermediaries (2004 with David Ruderman), Library, Translations, and ""Canonic"" Texts (2006)." Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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