TY  - BOOK
AU  - Swartz,Michael D.
TI  - The signifying creator: nontextual sources of meaning in ancient Judaism 
SN  - 9780814723784
AV  - BM530 .S88 2012
U1  - 296.3 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New York
PB  - NYU Press
KW  - Jewish mythology
KW  - Jewish legends
KW  - Symbolism in rabbinical literature
KW  - Jewish art and symbolism
KW  - Semiotics
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Judaism
KW  - History
KW  - Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D
KW  - Mythologie juive
KW  - Légendes juives
KW  - Symbolisme dans la littérature rabbinique
KW  - Symbolisme juif
KW  - Judaïsme
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 586 av. J.-C.-210 (Période postexilique)
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Theology
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Jewish
KW  - fast
KW  - Post-exilic period (Judaism)
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: outside the text -- Myths of creation -- The semiotics of the priestly vestments -- Divinations and its discontents -- Bubbling blood and rolling bones -- Conclusions: the signifying creator
N2  - For centuries, Jews have been known as the "people of the book." It is commonly thought that Judaism in the first several centuries CE found meaning exclusively in textual sources. But there is another approach to meaning to be found in ancient Judaism: one that sees it in the natural world and derives it from visual clues rather than textual ones. According to this conception, God embedded hidden signs in the world that could be read by human beings and interpreted according to complex systems. In exploring the diverse functions of signs outside of the realm of the written word, Swa
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