A roadmap to the heavens : an anthropological study of hegemony among priests, sages, and laymen / Sigalit Ben-Zion.

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Main Author: Ben-Zion, Sigalit
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2009.
Series:Judaism and Jewish life.
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Table of Contents:
  • CONTENTS
  • FOREWORD
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • CHAPTER ONE Introduction and methodological considerations
  • THE PURPOSE AND SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS RESEARCH
  • MAPPING THE SOCIAL IDENTITY: “PRIESTS, â€? “SAGES, â€? AND “ â€?AM HAâ€?ARETZâ€?
  • RESEARCH METHODS AND THEIR CONTRIBUTION
  • CHAPTER TWO Mapping the social identity “Priestsâ€?
  • THE COMPOSITION OF THE GROUP OF THE PRIESTS
  • THE HISTORICAL CONSTRUCTION OF THE GROUP OF THE PRIESTS
  • THE CULTURAL IDENTITY OF THE PRIESTS AS A SOCIAL GROUP
  • THE ORGANIZATION OF THE GROUP OF THE PRIESTS
  • SOCIOLOGY OF IGNORANCE AND PROTECTED KNOWLEDGETHE GROUP OF THE PRIESTS AS CONSTITUTING THE CULTURAL HEGEMONY IN JEWISH SOCIETY
  • CHAPTER THREE Mapping the social identity “Sagesâ€?
  • INTRODUCTION
  • THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE SAGES AND THE PHARISEES
  • THE COMPOSITION OF THE TANNAITIC SAGES
  • THE POLITICS OF HISTORICAL CONSTRUCTION OF THE TANNAITIC SAGES
  • THE CULTURAL IDENTITY OF THE GROUP OF SAGES: DIACRITICAL FEATURES AND A BASIC VALUE SYSTEM
  • INTERDEPENDENCY OF THE GROUP OF THE TANNAITIC SAGES
  • THE ORGANIZATION OF THE GROUP OF THE SAGES
  • WERE THE SAGES AN ELITE GROUP DURING THE TANNAITIC PERIOD?THE POLITICS OF ELITE CULTURE: THE PARTICULAR AND UNIVERSAL CULTURE
  • THE ART OF PERPETUATING POLITICAL POWER BY PRIVILEGED GROUPS
  • CHAPTER FOUR The relationship between the Haverim and â€?Am haâ€?aretz
  • MAPPING THE SOCIAL IDENTITY “HAVERIMâ€?
  • MAPPING THE SOCIAL IDENTITY “ â€?AM HAâ€?ARETZâ€?
  • THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE SAGES AND â€?AM HAâ€?ARETZ ACCORDING TO THE BABYLONIAN TALMUD
  • THE PORTRAYAL OF â€?AM HAâ€?ARETZ ACCORDING TO THE JERUSALEM TALMUD
  • THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE JEWS KNOWN AS â€?AM HAâ€?ARETZ AND THE HAVERIM AS DESCRIBED IN THE TANNAITIC LITERATURECHAPTER FIVE The self-awareness of the Sages as constituters of the counter-hegemony
  • THEORETICAL CONSIDERATION
  • SAGESâ€? SKINS, PRIESTSâ€? MASKS: THE DESIRE OF THE SLAVE TO BE LIKE HIS MASTER
  • CHAPTER SIX Exchange of ruling elites or the constitution of counter-hegemony?
  • SAGES VERSUS PRIESTS â€? A NEW SOCIAL ORDER OR A MIMICRY OF EXISTING PRIESTLY HEGEMONIC REPRESENTATION?
  • SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS
  • AFTERWORD
  • GLOSSARY OF HEBREW TERMS