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The Elusive Ark: Locus of Longing in Exile by Rachel Adelman is a Arts and Humanities article available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Elusive Ark: Locus of Longing in Exile about?
## Abstract This paper compares the Babylonian and Palestinian talmudic traditions on the fate of the ark of the covenant—either lost before or during the Babylonian conquest, or buried in the Temple precincts (b. Yom’a 53b–54a; y. Sheqalim 6:1–2, 49c). In the Babylonian Talmud, the ark and the cherubim are described in highly erotic, feminized terms, blurring traditional gender categories of Israel and God. The feminization of the ark serves as a “survival strategy” to counter the defiling gaze of the gentile conqueror, but also preserves the sacred center as a locus of longing for Jews in diaspora.
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- Author
- Rachel Adelman
- Publisher
- Brill; Informa UK Limited (ISSN 1053-699X)
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)