Sensing Sacred Texts - James W Watts
Engaging All the Senses: On Multi-sensory Stimulation in the Process of Making and Inaugurating a Torah Scroll
Sensing Sacred Texts - James W Watts
Marianne Schleicher [+]
Aarhus University
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Marianne Schleicher is Associate Professor of Jewish Studies in the Department of the Study of Religion at Aarhus University, Denmark. Her research interests lie in the intersection of Judaism, scripture, gender, and the history of religion.
Description
Marianne Schleicher provides a detailed analysis of the ritualized processes of creating and installing a Torah scroll in a Jewish congregation. By grounding the artefactual uses of the scroll in each of the five senses, her essay demonstrates the pre-cognitive ways in which sensation shapes religious experiences of the text.