Ivan G. Marcus
Autor de Rituals of Childhood: Jewish Acculturation in Medieval Europe
Sobre El Autor
Ivan G. Marcus is Chair of Yale University's Program of Judaic Studies, Frederick P. Rose Professor of Jewish History, and Professor of History and Religious Studies.
Obras de Ivan G. Marcus
Sefer Hasidim and the Ashkenazic Book in Medieval Europe (Jewish Culture and Contexts) (2018) 4 copias
Piety and Society: The Jewish Pietists of Medieval Germany (Etudes Sur Le Judaisme Medieval) (1981) 3 copias
Jewish Culture and Society in Medieval France and Germany (Variorum Collected Studies) (2014) 2 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Género
- male
- País (para mapa)
- United States of America
Miembros
Reseñas
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 9
- Miembros
- 91
- Popularidad
- #204,136
- Valoración
- 2.7
- Reseñas
- 2
- ISBNs
- 15
- Idiomas
- 1
I would have liked to have seen more attention to the modus vivens of the Ashekenaz, as otherwise Marcus's "historical anthropology" remains too textual. He especially needed, however, to examine gender more closely: the ceremony sees the boy taken from its mother and given over to a community of men. What is the significance of gender in twelfth-century Ashkenaz? What is the shared significance of gender among the Christians and Jews? Marcus speaks (briefly) about "Moses as Madonna" and the Torah's substitution for the mother’s lactating breast, both of which could be contextualized through the piety of "Jesus as Mother," which emerged at the same time as the school initiation ceremony. Furthermore, certain historical claims about the antiquity of Jewish practices (see 83 for example) need revision in light of Daniel Boyarin's work on the muddled distinctions of early Christians and Jews from the first to fourth centuries: what appears to be an early polemic might, rather, be a shared ceremony.… (más)