Holy Men and Hunger Artists - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Holy Men and Hunger Artists write by Eliezer Diamond. This book was released on 2004. Holy Men and Hunger Artists available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The existence of ascetic elements within rabbinic Judaism has generally been either overlooked or actually denied. Diamond shows that rabbinic asceticism does indeed exist. This asceticism is mainly secondary, rather than primary, in that the rabbis place no value on self-denial in and of itself.
Holy Men and Hunger Artists
Holy Men and Hunger Artists - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Holy Men and Hunger Artists write by Eliezer Diamond. This book was released on 2004. Holy Men and Hunger Artists available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The existence of ascetic elements within rabbinic Judaism has generally been either overlooked or actually denied. Diamond shows that rabbinic asceticism does indeed exist. This asceticism is mainly secondary, rather than primary, in that the rabbis place no value on self-denial in and of itself.
Rabi'a From Narrative to Myth
Rabi'a From Narrative to Myth - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rabi'a From Narrative to Myth write by Rkia Elaroui Cornell. This book was released on 2019-01-03. Rabi'a From Narrative to Myth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Rabi‘a al-‘Adawiyya is a figure shrouded in myth. Certainly a woman by this name was born in Basra, Iraq, in the eighth century, but her life remains recorded only in legends, stories, poems and hagiographies. The various depictions of her – as a deeply spiritual ascetic, an existentialist rebel and a romantic lover – seem impossible to reconcile, and yet Rabi‘a has transcended these narratives to become a global symbol of both Sufi and modern secular culture. In this groundbreaking study, Rkia Elaroui Cornell traces the development of these diverse narratives and provides a history of the iconic Rabi‘a’s construction as a Sufi saint. Combining medieval and modern sources, including evidence never before examined, in novel ways, Rabi‘a From Narrative to Myth is the most significant work to emerge on this quintessential figure in Islam for more than seventy years.
Celibacy and Religious Traditions
Celibacy and Religious Traditions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Celibacy and Religious Traditions write by Carl Olson. This book was released on 2008. Celibacy and Religious Traditions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For an educated, general readership and for use in college courses, this text introduces the role of celibacy, or a lack of it, in various religious traditions, and the contributors present the rationale for its observance (or not) within the context of each tradition.
Marriage and Metaphor
Marriage and Metaphor - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Marriage and Metaphor write by Gail Susan Labovitz. This book was released on 2009. Marriage and Metaphor available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Beginning with the opening of Mishnah Kiddushin, 'A woman is acquired (in marriage)...by money, by document, or by sexual intercourse, ' and using other examples of commercial language applied to marriage across the rabbinic canon, this work demonstrates that rabbis used information from the realm of property and commercial transactions to structure their understanding and reasoning about marriage and gender relations through a metaphor of women as ownable and marriage as a purchase or acquisition
