The Dangers of Reading As We Know It: Sight Reading As a Source of Heresy in Early Rabbinic Traditions

Contemporary scholarship often treats classical rabbinic allusions to “reading” the Bible as evidence that late antique rabbinic culture valorized the written word as a source of religious knowledge and authority. However, the early rabbinic practice that we commonly refer to as “reading” actually c...

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Main Author: Wollenberg, Rebecca Scharbach (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press [2017]
In: Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Year: 2017, Volume: 85, Issue: 3, Pages: 709-745
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Early Judaism / Rabbinic literature / Religious practice / Declamation / Literalness / Reading / Heresy
RelBib Classification:AG Religious life; material religion
BH Judaism
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