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readings in Jewish literary illumination
Sacred Body analyzes exemplary Jewish texts, narratives and cultural practices that show how these artifacts unhinge the "sacred" from the divine and focus instead on the "everyday sacred," earthly existence in order to celebrate life-affirming decisions, actions and relationships and avoid abstraction, metaphysics and apocalypticism.
Introduction Jewish Literary Illumination and the Earthly Body: Storytelling, Irony, and the Everyday Sacred -- Biblical Emigrants: Human Agency in Eve, Abraham, Sarah -- Sexuality, Martyrdom, and Suicide in the Talmud: Life Force and Death by Choice From Hekhalot to Kabbalah: Accessing the Body of God -- Wonder and the Jewish Enlightenment: False Messiahs, Philosophers, and Social Justice -- Twenty-First Century Narratives of Jewish Identity: The Schlemiel and the Messianic in Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policemen's Union and Nicole Krauss's Forest Dark -- Twenty-First Century Epic Theater and Eclectic Choreography in Margot Mink Colbert's Ballet Transit(ion): Emigration Transformation.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-171) and indexes.