Plague, Practice, and Prescriptive Text: Jewish Traditions on Fleeing Afflicted Cities in Early Modern Ashkenaz
Abstract This article studies the fate of a contradiction between practice and prescriptive text in 16th-century Ashkenaz. The practice was fleeing a plagued city, which contradicted a Talmudic passage requiring self-isolation at home when plague strikes. The emergence of this contradiction as a hal...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2020
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Journal of law, religion and state
Year: 2020, Volume: 8, Issue: 2/3, Pages: 152-178 |
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Talmud
/ Plague
/ Quarantine
/ Flight
/ Ashkenazim
/ Halacha
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| IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy BH Judaism TJ Modern history ZA Social sciences |
| Further subjects: | B
Plague
B Early Modern B Jewish Law |
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Presumably Free Access Volltext (Resolving-System) Volltext (Verlag) |