Title The sense of sight in rabbinic culture : Jewish ways of seeing in late antiquity / Rachel Neis.

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Description	1 online resource (xii, 319 pages).
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	Greek culture in the Roman world
	Greek culture in the Roman world.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-306) and indexes.
Summary	Explores the power of sight for ancient rabbis across the realms of divinity, sexuality, idolatry and rabbinic subjectivity.
Contents	Visual theory -- God-gazing and homovisuality -- Heterovisuality, face-bread and cherubs -- Visual eros -- Eyeing idols -- Seeing sages.
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Subject	Jews -- Palestine -- Social life and customs.
	Jews.
	Manners and customs.
	Jews -- Iraq -- Social life and customs.
	Iraq.
	Rabbis -- Palestine -- History -- To 1500.
	Rabbis.
	History.
Chronological Term	To 1500
Subject	Rabbis -- Iraq -- History -- To 1500.
	Vision -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.
	Vision -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.
	Iraq -- Civilization -- To 634.
	Civilization.
Chronological Term	To 634
Subject	Palestine -- Civilization.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: Neis, Rachel. Sense of sight in rabbinic culture. New York : Cambridge University Press, [2013] 9781107032514 (DLC) 2013017094 (OCoLC)864391545
ISBN	9781461945017 (electronic book)
	1461945011 (electronic book)
	1139506382 (electronic book)
	9781139506380 (electronic book)
	9781107291331
	110729133X
	1107294126
	9781107294127
	9781306071840
	1306071844
	1107032512
	9781107032514