The Double-Mirror Gaze, Transcoded Testimony, and Disqualified Witnesses in the Talmud
I will argue that the underlying rationale for the talmudic list of trades disqualified from legal testimony is aesthetic. These trades involved professional mimicry, which as such incapacitated what R. Neis has termed “homovisuality” or self-referential witnessing in the Talmud. Reading talmudic la...
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| Language: | English |
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Brill
2023
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The journal of Jewish thought & philosophy
Year: 2023, Volume: 31, Issue: 2, Pages: 127-162 |
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B Play B Gambling B Greco-Roman philosophy B Deleuze B mise en abyme B Mimesis B Gadamer B Talmud |
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