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Roadmap to the Heavens
Sigalit Ben-Zion
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Description for Roadmap to the Heavens
Hardback. Allows you to rethink prevailing ideas about the social map of Jewish society during the rabbinic period in Israel. This book explores the complex relationships among the sages, priests, and laymen who competed in social, cultural, and political arenas for hegemony. Series: Judaism and Jewish Life. Num Pages: 364 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRJ; JH. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 676.
The challenge of this book has been to rethink prevailing ideas about the social map of Jewish society during the rabbinic period in Israel. New insights were made possible by using anthropological theories and tools. The book explores the rich and complex relationships among the sages, priests, and laymen who competed in social, cultural, and political arenas for hegemony. It demonstrates that this struggle was not a simple case of displacement of the priestly elite by a new scholarly elite.In the process of constituting a counter-hegemony of the sages, there was a complex push-pull process: attraction-rejection, imitation-denial, and co-operation-confrontation. They ... Read more
The challenge of this book has been to rethink prevailing ideas about the social map of Jewish society during the rabbinic period in Israel. New insights were made possible by using anthropological theories and tools. The book explores the rich and complex relationships among the sages, priests, and laymen who competed in social, cultural, and political arenas for hegemony. It demonstrates that this struggle was not a simple case of displacement of the priestly elite by a new scholarly elite.In the process of constituting a counter-hegemony of the sages, there was a complex push-pull process: attraction-rejection, imitation-denial, and co-operation-confrontation. They ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Academic Studies Press United States
Number of pages
364
Condition
New
Series
Judaism and Jewish Life
Number of Pages
364
Place of Publication
Brighton, United States
ISBN
9781934843147
SKU
V9781934843147
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About Sigalit Ben-Zion
Sigalit Ben Zion received her Ph.D. degree in 2006 from Trondheim University in Norway in Comparative Religion with a specialization in Social Anthropology
Reviews for Roadmap to the Heavens
A fascinating insight into the social structure and dynamics of the Tannaitic period . . . Dr. Ben-Zion creates an intriguing typology of the processes of identity formation, full of ambivalence, contradictions, and challenges. The book itself is well written, integrates theoretical and empirical material, and sheds light on a topic not hitherto examined from an anthropological point of view. ... Read more