The three blessings: boundaries, censorship, and identity in jewish liturgy

In the traditional Jewish liturgy, a man praises God daily for not having been made a gentile, a woman, or a slave. Manuscript editions of the Babylonian Talmud teach that recitation of this prayer is obligatory for all Jewish men. Despite the fact that these blessings have been officially part of the daily morning liturgy for more than a thousand years, the propriety of whether and howto recite them is an ongoing subject of debate. Yoel Kahn offers the first longitudinal study of the evolving language, usage, and interpretation of a Jewish liturgical text over its entire 2000 year life-span. INDICE: Introduction; 1.: Defining Oneself Against the Other: Sources and Parallels in Late Antiquity; 2.: Assimilation and Integration: The Classical Rabbinic Sources; 3.: From Private Piety to Public Prayer: Reconciling Practice with Teaching; 4.: Competitive Traditions: Early Palestinian Practice; 5.:Censorship in Medieval and Renaissance Liturgy; 6.: Women, Slaves, Boors and Beasts; 7.: Material and Mystical World Views; 8.: Recasting Boundaries and Identity in Nineteenth-Century European Prayer Books; Chapter Nine: Identity andthe Creation of Community in Modern American Liturgy; Conclusion; Appendix; Bibliography

• ISBN: 978-0-19-537329-5
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 240
• Fecha Publicación: 20/01/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés