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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... ancient Near East and the Greco-Roman world, Jews are the only recognizable surviving ancient religious ethnic culture. Today, there are no Sumerians, Akkadians, Egyptians, Canaanites, Greeks, or Romans who worship ancient gods. But ...
... ancient as well as modern times: Common ways of doing things. Sometimes, Jews and non-Jews lived in the same society and just did things the same way. This was the case for most of the people most of the time and may be referred to as ...
... ancient times through modernity. Another important exception, especially in antiquity, involves the notion of “hybridity.” This refers to when Jews thought of themselves as belonging to two cultures. Jewish hybridity characterizes much ...
... ancient Near Eastern or Greco-Roman practices. Later generations of Jews considered them to be Jewish because they got into the Hebrew Bible or Talmud or became widespread custom at least in a particular region. Once a life cycle rite ...
... ancient Jewish history as well. In modern western countries, in particular, some Jews sought to merge their Jewish identity into a larger national one and lost a coherent sense of a collective and individual Jewish self. Sometimes, the ...
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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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