Rabbinic Body Language: Non-Verbal Communication in Palestinian Rabbinic Literature of Late Antiquity
- Submitting institution
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School of Oriental and African Studies
- Unit of assessment
- 31 - Theology and Religious Studies
- Output identifier
- 23125
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.1163/9789004339064
- Publisher
- Brill
- ISBN
- 9789004339057
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- February
- Year of publication
- 2017
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- This study constitutes the first comprehensive examination of rabbinic body language represented in Palestinian rabbinic documents of late antiquity. The author examines rabbis' appearance and demeanour, spatial movement, gestures and facial expressions represented in Hebrew and Aramaic primary sources on the basis of literary and social-anthropological methods and theories. The various forms of rabbis' non-verbal communication are discussed in the context of Graeco-Roman and Christian literary sources, in Greek and Latin, and in connection with the material culture of Roman and early Byzantine Palestine. The study indicates the importance of body language as a means of rabbinic self-fashioning and identity-formation.
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- Non-English
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