The Jewish Life Cycle: Rites of Passage from Biblical to Modern TimesUniversity of Washington Press, 1 de mar. de 2012 - 376 páginas In this original and sweeping review of Jewish culture and history, Ivan Marcus examines how and why various rites and customs celebrating stages in the life cycle have evolved through the ages and persisted to this day. For each phase of life--from childhood and adolescence to adulthood and the advanced years—the book traces the origin and development of specific rites associated with the events of birth, circumcision, and schooling; bar and bat mitzvah and confirmation; engagement, betrothal, and marriage; and aging, dying, and remembering. Customs in Jewish tradition, such as the presence of godparents at a circumcision, the use of a four-poled canopy at a wedding, and the placing of small stones on tombstones, are discussed. In each chapter, detailed descriptions walk the reader through such ceremonies as early modern and contemporary circumcision, weddings, and funerals. |
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... Talmud is in the Bibliography under Primary Sources, under B. Among those colleagues and friends who have been especially helpful, I want to thank Elisheva Baumgarten, Robert Bonfil, Daniel Boyarin, Shaye J. D. Cohen, Yaakov Deutsch ...
... Talmud meant when it interpreted the verse in Genesis about two of Noah's sons, “May God enlarge Japheth, and let him dwell in the tents of Shem” (Gen. 9:27), to mean, “let the chief beauty (yafyut) of Japheth [the culture of the ...
... Talmud are the ba'al brit,or godfather, sometimes called the sandeq,as well as the invocation of the prophet Elijah and his chair at a ritual circumcision; cutting the hair for the first time of a three-year-old boy and then immediately ...
... Talmud,8 the canon of Jewish rabbinic high culture, were themselves once adaptations of still earlier ancient Near Eastern or Greco-Roman practices. Later generations of Jews considered them to be Jewish because they got into the Hebrew ...
... Talmudic texts on which to hang that which has developed outside the academy. the. “ages. of. man”. and. the. stages. of. life. Rites of passage presuppose that a culture constructs a lifetime into a span of years that can be divided into ...
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2 Bar Mitzvah Bat Mitzvah Confirmation | 82 |
3 Engagement Betrothal Marriage | 124 |
4 Aging Dying Remembering | 193 |
Conclusions | 249 |
Glossary | 255 |
Notes | 261 |
Bibliography | 301 |
Index | 347 |
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