The Language of Stones:

مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" The Language of Stones: "
Joshua Levinson

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1075378
Doc. No	:	LA119007
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15700631-12340448‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Joshua Levinson
Title & Author	:	The Language of Stones: [Article] : Roman Milestones on Rabbinic Roads\ Joshua Levinson
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Journal for the Study of Judaism
Date	:	2016
Volume/ Issue Number	:	47/2
Page No	:	257–276
Abstract	:	In the multi-linguistic reality of late antique Palestine the mixing of languages was also a mixing of cultures. This essay examines how one multilingual artifact, the Roman milestone, functioned as a means of inter-cultural communication both for those who erected them and the rabbis who read them. I suggest that the Roman roads and milestones that signified the power of the empire, were interpreted by means of a rabbinic hermeneutic of resistance that allowed them to create an imaginary landscape and counter-cartography wherein all the roads lead not to Rome, but rather to the sages and their teachings. In the multi-linguistic reality of late antique Palestine the mixing of languages was also a mixing of cultures. This essay examines how one multilingual artifact, the Roman milestone, functioned as a means of inter-cultural communication both for those who erected them and the rabbis who read them. I suggest that the Roman roads and milestones that signified the power of the empire, were interpreted by means of a rabbinic hermeneutic of resistance that allowed them to create an imaginary landscape and counter-cartography wherein all the roads lead not to Rome, but rather to the sages and their teachings.
Descriptor	:	cultural resistance
Descriptor	:	midrash
Descriptor	:	milestones
Descriptor	:	multilingualism
Descriptor	:	travel
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15700631-12340448‬