David Rothstein
Biographic Data
| ID | 249798 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Rothstein |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Rothstein |
| SIGNATURE | ROTHSTEIN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | St. John's University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Who is “Profaned?” Rabbinic and Samaritan (Re)formulations of Leviticus 21
Second Temple, rabbinic, and Samaritan sources preserve a variety of interpretations and (re)formulations of Leviticus 21:9. The pivotal issue informing the various approaches to this verse is the identity of the person “profaned” by the conduct of the priest’s daughter; specifically, is it the daughter, herself, or her father who is (directly) affected? The present essay examines various rabbinic and Samaritan interpretations of this verse, noti…
Sexual Union and Sexual Offences in Jubilees
In two recent articles A. Shemesh has argued that the Qumran community viewed the act of sexual intercourse alone as affecting the marital bond. The present paper demonstrates that Jubilees, in its reformulation of the biblical narrative, maintains a position very similar, and possibly identical, to that proposed by Shemesh. On this fundamentally ontological view, the physical union itself is determinative in connection with both permitted and pr…
Forming the Chivalric Subject
B Y THE EARLY 1820 s, medievalist representations of the British nation, such as those disseminated through Sir Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe , had increasingly displaced longstanding, Francophobic forms of nationalist imagery popular throughout Britain during the century of wars against France before 1815. The “medieval revival” of the early nineteenth century provided inspiration for a new strain of nationalist imagery and discourse that would evolve …
Relations in Public
Culture Creation and Social Reconstruction
This study considers culture and social structure as, respectively, an epistemic system of graduated abstractness for defining and classifying experience, and the possible and legitimate means for coping with experience. It presents two paradigms which inquire into the nature of cultural and social structural change and stability that result when two groups come into contact. Variations in the qualitative characteristics of contact are seen as pr…
Culture Creation and Social Reconstruction
This study considers culture and social structure as, respectively, an epistemic system of graduated abstractness for defining and classifying experience, and the possible and legitimate means for coping with experience. It presents two paradigms which inquire into the nature of cultural and social structural change and stability that result when two groups come into contact. Variations in the qualitative characteristics of contact are seen as pr…
Relations in Public
Forming the Chivalric Subject
B Y THE EARLY 1820 s, medievalist representations of the British nation, such as those disseminated through Sir Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe , had increasingly displaced longstanding, Francophobic forms of nationalist imagery popular throughout Britain during the century of wars against France before 1815. The “medieval revival” of the early nineteenth century provided inspiration for a new strain of nationalist imagery and discourse that would evolve …
Sexual Union and Sexual Offences in Jubilees
In two recent articles A. Shemesh has argued that the Qumran community viewed the act of sexual intercourse alone as affecting the marital bond. The present paper demonstrates that Jubilees, in its reformulation of the biblical narrative, maintains a position very similar, and possibly identical, to that proposed by Shemesh. On this fundamentally ontological view, the physical union itself is determinative in connection with both permitted and pr…
Who is “Profaned?” Rabbinic and Samaritan (Re)formulations of Leviticus 21
Second Temple, rabbinic, and Samaritan sources preserve a variety of interpretations and (re)formulations of Leviticus 21:9. The pivotal issue informing the various approaches to this verse is the identity of the person “profaned” by the conduct of the priest’s daughter; specifically, is it the daughter, herself, or her father who is (directly) affected? The present essay examines various rabbinic and Samaritan interpretations of this verse, noti…
Art (3 works) · History (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation (2 works) · Genealogy (2 works) · Historical and Linguistic Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · Judaism (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Sociology (2 works)