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Intiem gedrag.
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ISBN: 9022971864 9789022971864 Year: 1972 Publisher: Utrecht,

Man en vrouw zijn één : de androgynie in het Christendom, in het bijzonder bij Jacob Boehme
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ISBN: 9061940869 Year: 1986 Publisher: Utrecht HES Uitgevers

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The soul-body problem at Paris, ca. 1200-1250 : Hugh of St-Cher and his contemporaries
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ISBN: 9789058678027 9058678024 Year: 2010 Volume: 42 Publisher: Leuven: Leuven university press,

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The soul-body problem was among the most controversial issues discussed in 13th century Europe, and it continues to capture much attention today as the quest to understand human identity becomes more and more urgent. What made the discussion about this problem particularly interesting in the scholastic period was the tension between the traditional dualist doctrines and a growing need to affirm the unity of the human being. This debate is frequently interpreted as a conflict between the 'new' philosophy, conveyed by the rediscovered works of Aristotle and his followers, and doctrinal requirements, especially the belief in the soul's immortality. However, a thorough examination of Parisian texts, written between approximately 1150 and 1260, leads us to conclusions which may seem surprising. In this book, the study and edition of some little-known texts of Hugh of St-Cher and his contemporaries reveals an extremely rich and colourful picture of the Parisian anthropological debate of the time.


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Purity, Body, and Self in Early Rabbinic Literature.
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ISBN: 0520958217 9781461957195 1461957192 9780520958210 1306402743 9781306402743 9780520280632 0520280636 Year: 2014 Publisher: Berkeley University of California Press

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This book explores the ways in which the early rabbis reshaped biblical laws of ritual purity and impurity and argues that the rabbis' new purity discourse generated a unique notion of a bodily self. Focusing on the Mishnah, a Palestinian legal codex compiled around the turn of the third century CE, Mira Balberg shows how the rabbis constructed the processes of contracting, conveying, and managing ritual impurity as ways of negotiating the relations between one's self and one's body and, more broadly, the relations between one's self and one's human and nonhuman environments. With their heightened emphasis on subjectivity, consciousness, and self-reflection, the rabbis reinvented biblically inherited language and practices in a way that resonated with central cultural concerns and intellectual commitments of the Greco-Roman Mediterranean world. Purity, Body, and Self in Early Rabbinic Literature adds a new dimension to the study of practices of self-making in antiquity by suggesting that not only philosophical exercises but also legal paradigms functioned as sites through which the self was shaped and improved.

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