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The Miriam tradition : teaching embodied Torah / Cia Sautter

Author
Sautter, Cia
Published
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2010]
Copyright Date
©2010
Physical Description
1 online resource
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Contents
Preface : why movement matters -- Women and sacred power -- Movement matters -- Miriam's dance -- Miriam at the wedding celebration -- The Rachel tradition : dancing death.
Summary
The Miriam Tradition works from the premise that religious values form in and through movement, with ritual and dance developing patterns for enacting those values. Cia Sautter considers the case of Sephardic Jewish women who, following in the tradition of Miriam the prophet, performed dance and music for Jewish celebrations and special occasions. She uses rabbinic and feminist understandings of the Torah to argue that these women, called tanyaderas, "taught" Jewish values by leading appropriate behavior for major life events.
Sautter considers the religious values that are in music and dance performed by tanyaderas and examines them in conjunction with written and visual records and evidence from dance and music traditions. Explaining the symbolic gestures and motions encoded in dances, Sautter shows how rituals display deeply held values that are best expressed through the body. The book argues that the activities of women in other religions might also be examined for their embodiment and display of important values, bringing forgotten groups of women back into the historical record as important community leaders. --Book Jacket.
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ISBN
9780252090271 epub
0252090276
9780252035777 cloth : alk. paper
0252035771 cloth : alk. paper
9780252077623 pbk. : alk. paper
0252077628 pbk. : alk. paper
1283017652
9781283017657
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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