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003			OCoLC
005			20240726104730.0
008			150414s2015 nyu ob 001 0 eng d
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020			_a9781316398890 _q((electronic)l(electronic)ctronic)
020			_a9781316286326 _q((electronic)l(electronic)ctronic)
050	0	4	_aBM496 _b.P694 2015
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aBelser, Julia Watts, _d1978- _e1
245	1	0	_aPower, ethics, and ecology in Jewish late antiquity : _brabbinic responses to drought and disaster / _cJulia Watts Belser.
260			_aNew York : _bCambridge University Press, _c(c)2015.
300			_a1 online resource
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
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520	0		_a"Rabbinic tales of drought, disaster, and charismatic holy men illuminate critical questions about power, ethics, and ecology in Jewish late antiquity. Through a sustained reading of the Babylonian Talmud's tractate on fasts in response to drought, this book shows how Bavli Ta'anit challenges Deuteronomy's claim that virtue can assure abundance and that misfortune is an unambiguous sign of divine rebuke. Employing a new method for analyzing lengthy Talmudic narratives, Julia Watts Belser traces complex strands of aggadic dialectic to show how Bavli Ta'anit's redactors articulate a strikingly self-critical theological and ethical discourse. Bavli Ta'anit castigates rabbis for misuse of power, exposing the limits of their perception and critiquing prevailing obsessions with social status. But it also celebrates the possibilities of performative perception - the power of an adroit interpreter to transform events in the world and interpret crisis in a way that draws forth blessing -- _cProvided by publisher.
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650		0	_aDroughts in rabbinical literature.
650		0	_aRain in rabbinical literature.
650		0	_aDisasters in rabbinical literature.
650		0	_aRabbinical literature _xHistory and criticism.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell