The Language of Stones: Roman Milestones on Rabbinic Roads
In the multi-linguistic reality of late antique Palestine the mixing of languages was also a mixing of cultures. This essay examines how one multilingual artifact, the Roman milestone, functioned as a means of inter-cultural communication both for those who erected them and the rabbis who read them....
Publié dans: | Journal for the study of Judaism |
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Type de support: | Électronique Article |
Langue: | Anglais |
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Brill
2016
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Journal for the study of Judaism
Année: 2016, Volume: 47, Numéro: 2, Pages: 257-276 |
Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Midrash
travel
milestones
multilingualism
cultural resistance
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Résumé: | In the multi-linguistic reality of late antique Palestine the mixing of languages was also a mixing of cultures. This essay examines how one multilingual artifact, the Roman milestone, functioned as a means of inter-cultural communication both for those who erected them and the rabbis who read them. I suggest that the Roman roads and milestones that signified the power of the empire, were interpreted by means of a rabbinic hermeneutic of resistance that allowed them to create an imaginary landscape and counter-cartography wherein all the roads lead not to Rome, but rather to the sages and their teachings. |
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ISSN: | 1570-0631 |
Contient: | In: Journal for the study of Judaism
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15700631-12340448 |