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Rabbinic Judaism : space and place /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kraemer, David Charles (Author)
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2016.
Series:Routledge Jewish studies series.
Subjects:
Judaism > Iraq > Babylonia > History.
Rabbis > Iraq > Babylonia > Office.
Synagogues > Iraq > Babylonia.
Temple of Jerusalem (Jerusalem)
Rabbinical literature > History and criticism.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Early Christians
  • 3. Rebuilding the Temple
  • 4. Mapping the sacred land: fields and their boundaries (Kilayim and Peah)
  • 5. Sabbath maps
  • 6. Real mythical space: the Sukkah
  • 7. The other Rabbinic spatiality: ohalot (tents containing death impurity)
  • 8. Place without place I: blessings
  • 9. Place without place II: the synagogue
  • 10. Space matters.