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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... refers to when Jews thought of themselves as belonging to two cultures. Jewish hybridity characterizes much of ancient Jewish history, such as the Israelite cultures of Judah and Israel, and those Hellenized Jews who refused to give up ...
... are mentioned. For example, the Mishnah, the first rabbinic document from early third-century Palestine, refers to different ages for bloodletting and says when one is young one may do it every thirty days; when one is 13 Introduction.
... refers to “his acts being seven ages”: At first the infant, mewling and puking in the nurse's arms. Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel and shining morning face, creeping like snail unwillingly to school. And then the lover ...
... refers to a custom that marked the event in Palestine, where parents planted a cedar tree for a newborn boy and a pine tree for a newborn girl.24 Although this source is often read to mean that the tree was later used to form the ...
... refers to Pharaoh's birthday (“yom huledet et par'o”) (Gen. 40:20), on which a feast was made. The rabbinic comment might be taken to imply that the writer himself was aware of annual birthday celebrations among Jews in twelfth-century ...
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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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