The Signifying Creator: Nontextual Sources of Meaning in Ancient Judaism
For centuries, Jews have been known as the people of the book. It is commonly thought that Judaism in the first several centuries CE found meaning exclusively in textual sources. But there is another approach to meaning to be found in ancient Judaism, one that sees it in the natural world and derives it from visual clues rather than textual ones. According to this conception, God embedded hidden signs in the world that could be read by human beings and interpreted according to complex systems.In exploring the diverse functions of signs outside of the realm of the written word, Swartz introduces unfamiliar sources and motifs from the formative…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4798-5557-5
- EAN: 9781479855575
- Produktnummer: 15643757
- Verlag: New York Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 120 S.
- Masse: H22.6 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.0 cm 236 g
- Gewicht: 236
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Michael D. Swartz is Professor of Hebrew and Religious Studies at the Ohio State University. His books include Scholastic Magic, Mystical Prayer in Ancient Judaism, Hebrew and Aramaic Incantation Texts from the Cairo Genizah (with Lawrence H. Schiffman), and Avodah: Ancient Poems for Yom Kippur (with Joseph Yahalom). He also served as Judaica Editor for the second edition of The Encyclopedia of Religion.
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