The Theory of the Raven (Sarah Pierce Taylor)
In responding to Rafael Neis’ book When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven, I write as a scholar of premodern South Asian religious literature focusing on affect, embodiment, and gender and sexuality. Being an outsider to the field means that the finer strokes of Rabbinic law and the like are impenetrable, but it is also a position of privilege for the ways in which it makes readily apparent the broader strokes and interventions of Neis’ project. ...I noted the earlier essays in the series here and links.
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