The challenge of this book has been to rethink prevailing ideas about the social map of Jewish society during the Tannaitic period (70 C.E.-220 C.E.). New insights were made possible by applying anthropological theories and conceptual tools.
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The challenge of this book has been to rethink prevailing ideas about the social map of Jewish society during the Tannaitic period (70 C.E.-220 C.E.). New insights were made possible by applying anthropological theories and conceptual tools.
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Add this copy of A Roadmap to the Heavens: an Anthropological Study of to cart. $39.23, new condition, Sold by Fireside Bookshop rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Stroud, GLOUCESTERSHIRE, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2009 by Academic Studies Press.
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New in As New jacket. Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall; Type: Book Tiny tear on bottom of d/j spine. The challenge of this book has been to rethink prevailing ideas about the social map of Jewish society during the rabbinic period in Israel. New insights were made possible by using anthropological theories and tools. The book explores the rich and complex relationships among the sages, priests, and laymen who competed in social, cultural, and political arenas for hegemony. It demonstrates that this struggle was not a simple case of displacement of the priestly elite by a new scholarly elite. In the process of constituting a counter-hegemony of the sages, there was a complex push-pull process: attraction-rejection, imitation-denial, and co-operation-confrontation. They undermined the old order by using the old hegemonic priestly discourse. Whereas the sages proposed a new order based on intellectual achievement, they nevertheless created on top of the earlier hegemonic order a new order of group nepotism, endogamy, ritual purity, and secret knowledge and education provided only to the proper social classes. Ben-Zion concludes that even in the process of resistance and disengagement from the priestly hegemony, the sages could not free themselves from the bondage of the priestly discourse and praxis. 349pp.N.B. Quarter inch closed tear to base of d/j spine.
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Very good in Very good jacket. Jacket is in great condition, with no visible flaws apart from small liquid stain along top edge, not affecting legibility of text. Cover is in excellent condition. Binding is tight and inside is clean and unmarked.
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