The Corpus of Hebrew and Jewish Autos Sacramentales: Self-deception and Conversion
This article identifies a set of plays written in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries by new Jews' in the Western Sephardi Diaspora, as autos sacramentales. It discusses essential characteristics of this genre, such as the dualtheomachic and psychomachiclevel, the triangle constellation...
| Published in: | European journal of jewish studies |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
[2019]
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| In: |
European journal of jewish studies
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Sephardim
/ Autos sacramentales
/ History 1600-1800
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| RelBib Classification: | BH Judaism KBH Iberian Peninsula |
| Further subjects: | B
Hebrew drama
B Miguel de Barrios B Penso de la Vega B autos sacramentales B Western Sephardi Diaspora B Siglo de Oro drama B Moshe Zacuto B Antonio Enríquez Gómez |
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| Summary: | This article identifies a set of plays written in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries by new Jews' in the Western Sephardi Diaspora, as autos sacramentales. It discusses essential characteristics of this genre, such as the dualtheomachic and psychomachiclevel, the triangle constellation of allegorical characters with human nature in its center and the representatives of good and evil on both sides, and the parallelism created in the play between the cosmic story, the story of humanity, and the story of the individual human soul. It is argued that these characteristics are to be found in plays written by Jews in the Early Modern Era. The article maintains that the appearance of this corpus of plays in the history of Jewish writing indicates that an underlying structure of the psychic and historical consciousness of Western culture had not skipped the Jewish cultural world. |
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| ISSN: | 1872-471X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: European journal of jewish studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/1872471X-11211064 |