Three Blessings Boundaries, Censorship, and Identity in Jewish Liturgy

Name: Three Blessings Boundaries, Censorship, and Identity in Jewish Liturgy
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ISBN: 9780195373295

ISBN-10: 0195373294

ISBN-13: 9780195373295

Edition: 2010

Authors: Yoel Kahn

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According to historical teaching, a Jewish man should give thanks each day for ''not having been made a gentile, a woman, nor a slave.'' Yoel Kahn's innovative study of a controversial Jewish liturgical passage traces the history of this prayer from its extra-Jewish origins across two thousand years of history, demonstrating how different generations and communities understood the significance of these words in light of their own circumstances. Marking the boundary between ''us''and ''them,'' marginalized and persecuted groups affirmed their own identity and sense of purpose. After the medieval Church seized and burned books it considered offensive, new, coded formulations emerged as forms…

Book details

List price: $93.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/24/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Size: 6.46" wide x 9.29" long x 1.05" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English