The Reproduction of Species: Humans, Animals and Species Nonconformity in Early Rabbinic Science

Neis, Rachel

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“…On a socio-historical level, they reflect different backgrounds of both authors and audiences of the two traditions. Graeco-Roman texts often display detailed advice for (exotic may enter into a conversation with the recently published work of R. R. Neis on species, generation, and rabbinic reproductive science (Neis 2017(Neis , 2018. 75 On fever in rabbinic traditions, see Wandrey 2003.…”

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“…Kessler 2009Tziraki-Segal 2009;Bar-Ilan 2009;Hasan-Rokem 2013;Hasan-Rokem and Yuval 2017;Doruftei 2018;Strauch Schick 2017Walfish 2017. On rabbinic knowledge about species with regard to fetal development, see Neis 2017Neis , 2018 The most comprehensive discussion so far, besides Preuss 1911Preuss /1992 55 The path taken by Abrams 1998 has been followed and was substantially broadened by the studies of Belser 2011. Cf.…”

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Defining Jewish Medicine. Transfer of Medical Knowledge in Premodern Jewish Cultures and Traditions

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Episteme in Bewegung Beiträge Zu Einer Transdisziplinären Wissensgeschichte

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Since its inception in July 2012, the Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) 980 "Episteme in Motion. Transfer of Knowledge from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period", based at the Freie Universität Berlin, has been engaging with processes of knowledge change in premodern European and non-European cultures.The project aims at a fundamentally new approach to the historiography of knowledge in premodern cultures. Modern scholars have frequently described premodern knowledge as static and stable, bound by tradition and highly dependent on authority, and this is a view that was often held within premodern cultures themselves.More often than not, modern approaches to the history of premodern knowledge have been informed by historiographical notions such as 'rupture' or 'revolution', as well as by concepts of periodization explicitly or implicitly linked to a master narrative of progress.Frequently, only a limited capacity for epistemic change and, what is more, only a limited ability to reflect on shifts in knowledge were attributed to premodern cultures, just as they were denied most forms of historical consciousness, and especially so with respect to knowledge change. In contrast, the CRC 980 seeks to demonstrate that premodern processes of knowledge change were characterised by constant flux, as well as by constant self-reflexion. These epistemic shifts and reflexions were subject to their very own dynamics, and played out in patterns that were much more complex than traditional accounts of knowledge change would have us believe.In order to describe and conceptualise these processes of epistemic change, the CRC 980 has developed a notion of 'episteme' which encompasses 'knowledge' as well as 'scholarship' and 'science', defining knowledge as the 'knowledge of something', and thus as knowledge which stakes a claim to validity. Such claims to validity are not necessarily expressed in terms of explicit reflexion, however -rather, they constitute themselves, and are reflected, in particular practices, institutions and modes of representation, as well as in specific aesthetic and performative strategies.In addition to this, the CRC 980 deploys a specially adapted notion of 'transfer' centred on the re-contextualisation of knowledge. Here, transfer is not understood as a mere movement from A to B, but rather in terms of intricately entangled processes of exchange that stay in motion through iteration even if, at first glance, they appear to remain in a state of stasis. In fact, actions ostensibly geared towards the transmission, fixation, canonisation and codification of a certain level of knowledge prove particularly conducive to constant epistemic change. VI PrefaceIn collaboration with the publishing house Harrassowitz the CRC has initiated the series "Episteme in Motion. Contributions to a Transdisciplinary History of Knowledge" with a view to showcase the project's research results and to render them accessible to a wider scholarly audience. The volumes published in this series represent the full scope of colla...

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Defining Jewish Medicine. Transfer of Medical Knowledge in Premodern Jewish Cultures and Traditions

2021

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Improv and the Angel: Disability Dance, Embodied Ethics, and Jewish Biblical Narrative

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2019

Journal of Religious Ethics

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Disability dance lays claim to the provocative possibilities of the disabled body, raising profound questions about the politics of art, affect, and embodiment. For scholars of religion, disability dance is a powerful—and as yet unrecognized—site for probing the sacrality and ethics enacted in disability culture. This article brings the biblical tale of Jacob and the angel into conversation with a contemporary performance, “The Way You Look (at me) Tonight,” an intimate duet between choreographer and performer Jess Curtis and Clare Cunningham, an internationally acclaimed dancer who explores the artistry of lived disability experience. Using dance as a hermeneutic invitation to draw out ethical insights into risk, consent, and intimacy, I offer a disability‐sensitive reading of Genesis 32—reading the angel as a body whose presence attests to the brilliant shock of disability difference and probing the psychic and somatic transformation that unfolds when Jacob comes into kinesthetic contact with disability and the sacred.

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Fetus, Flesh, Food: Generating Bodies of Knowledge in Rabbinic Science

Neis

2019

Journal of Ancient Judaism

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The Reproduction of Species: Humans, Animals and Species Nonconformity in Early Rabbinic Science

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Defining Jewish Medicine. Transfer of Medical Knowledge in Premodern Jewish Cultures and Traditions

Defining Jewish Medicine. Transfer of Medical Knowledge in Premodern Jewish Cultures and Traditions

Improv and the Angel: Disability Dance, Embodied Ethics, and Jewish Biblical Narrative

Fetus, Flesh, Food: Generating Bodies of Knowledge in Rabbinic Science

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