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Monday, August 05, 2024

Lieber, Staging the Sacred: SBL review panel, part 1

ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: Liturgy and Theater: Hearing Poetry Anew (Susan Ashbrook Harvey).
SBL 2023 Review Panel | Staging the Sacred: Theatricality and Performance in Late Ancient Liturgical Poetry, by Laura Lieber

... A major achievement of the book is the successful setting of Jewish, Samaritan, and Christian hymnody in shared spotlight, as partakers together of their cultural world, its landscapes, society, literary, oral, aural, and visual cultures (and, one might add, olfactory culture as well: with incense everywhere to cleanse and adorn the air of worship, and fragrant lamp oils to illuminate with beauty). ...

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