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Monographs on ancient travel are surprisingly few and far between, a situation more severe within the study of ancient Judaism. Catherine Hezser begins to fill the lacuna with a substantial and valuable work. Though she frames the book as refuting understandings of ancient Judaism as an essentially “sedentary” society, Hezser accomplishes much more, offering scholarship valuable for any interested in the material aspects and literary perceptions of ancient travel. For Hezser, the very existence of rabbinic literature and culture depended on the mobility and trans-regional connections that characterized life and learning among Palestinian and Babylonian sages. The book comprises two major parts: a survey of the material realities of ancient travel and an analysis of Jewish literary texts on travel, with an emphasis on Rabbinic literature composed in Palestine or treating journeys between Palestine and Babylonia. The first part begins by discussing how ancients perceived geographic space. Reliance on itineraria as opposed to maps may have yielded a more linear and relational (or “landmark and distance” [44]) conception of the locations as opposed to a “cartographic” vision. Since the rabbinic period commenced with the loss of Jerusalem as its religious and cultural center, rabbinic geographic mindsets within Palestine
Journal for the Study of Judaism – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2013
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