Naomi Janowitz
Biographic Data
| ID | 341401 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Naomi Janowitz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Naomi |
| FAMILY NAME | Janowitz |
| SIGNATURE | JANOWITZ N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Davis |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7725-1970 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Horney’s dread and envy of women: Looking backwards and forwards
Erotic Love Magic and the Problem of Female Agency
Drawing Down the Moon is an outstanding contribution to the contemporary debate about ritual practices and magic. My review focuses on two intersecting points, the definition of magic as discourse in Chapter One and the analysis of “love charms and erotic curses” in Chapter Four. I begin with the second issue, the category love magic , and will return to the first, magic as discourse, at the end. I have a fairly narrow point to make about the cat…
Framing the Intentions of Suicide Bombers
Despite the extensive information known about suicide bombings, widely-varying intentions have been used by many scholars to explain the religious motivations for the violence: these events are framed by participants as religious experiences, raising complex questions about the relationship between religious experience and violence. Recent studies use the vocabulary of religious studies-sacrifice, martyr, witness-to locate "cultures of violence" …
Freud’s Legacy and Modern Theories of Ineffable Trauma
Ancient Ideologies of Ineffability and Their Echoes
Ancient ideas about the limits of what can be put into words demonstrate the popularity of the notion that language is a guide to truth, even if that truth is defined by the limits of language. Two ancient and one modern example all locate truth in a reality that can be tracked both by the possibility of and the inherent failure of definition. Ancient exegetes started with the basic concept that words were both names for objects and the best form…
Dayna S. Kalleres. City of Demons: Violence, Ritual, and Christian Power in Late Antiquity
Dayna S. Kalleres’s City of Demons sets out to make demons real, tracking their “tangibility” (4) in the buildings (synagogues and temples), landscapes, and bodies of the ancient cities of Antioch, Jerusalem, and Milan. In the non-Christian landscape, she writes, John Chrysostom, Cyril of Jerusalem, and Ambrose of Milan recruited Christians to engage in battles with demon-infested buildings and bodies. Church leaders did not function only as the …
Rereading Sacrifice: The Semiosis of Blood
Blood gains many distinct meanings from different modes of classification, some of which are calibrated by the representational capacities of sacrifice. The Priestly source from Hebrew scriptures and the early Jewish text Second Maccabees both reread ancient sacrifice traditions, articulating new meanings for blood as part of the transformation from a temple-based locative system of animal sacrifice to a utopian decentered model of human self-sac…
The Talking Cure as Action: Freud's Theory of Ritual Revisited
Good Jews Don't: Historical and Philosophical Constructions of Idolatry
Dedication
Lusting for death: Unconscious fantasies in an ancient Jewish martyrdom text
Ethnicity and Culture in Late Antiquity
Theurgy and the Soul: The Neoplatonism of Iamblichus. Gregory Shaw
Rabbinic Methods of Inference and the Rationality Debate
"Janowitz, "The Poetics of Ascent: Theories of Language in a Rabbinic Ascent Text
The Rhetoric of Translation: Three Early Perspectives on Translating Torah
Three of the earliest extant Jewish exegetes, Aristobulus, Aristeas, and Philo, all state that King Ptolemy was responsible for a Greek translation of the Hebrew sacred writings. Scholarly discussion has focused on finding the historical kernel in these stories, or linking their creation to a particular event such as the official promulgation of an original or corrected Greek translation. The Letter of Aristeas is usually considered the most accu…
Theories of Divine Names in Origen and Pseudo-Dionysius
Ancient Judaism: Biblical Criticism From Max Weber to the Present. Irving M. Zeitlin
Rereading Sacrifice: The Semiosis of Blood
Blood gains many distinct meanings from different modes of classification, some of which are calibrated by the representational capacities of sacrifice. The Priestly source from Hebrew scriptures and the early Jewish text Second Maccabees both reread ancient sacrifice traditions, articulating new meanings for blood as part of the transformation from a temple-based locative system of animal sacrifice to a utopian decentered model of human self-sac…
Ancient Judaism: Biblical Criticism From Max Weber to the Present. Irving M. Zeitlin
The Rhetoric of Translation: Three Early Perspectives on Translating Torah
Three of the earliest extant Jewish exegetes, Aristobulus, Aristeas, and Philo, all state that King Ptolemy was responsible for a Greek translation of the Hebrew sacred writings. Scholarly discussion has focused on finding the historical kernel in these stories, or linking their creation to a particular event such as the official promulgation of an original or corrected Greek translation. The Letter of Aristeas is usually considered the most accu…
Theories of Divine Names in Origen and Pseudo-Dionysius
Rabbinic Methods of Inference and the Rationality Debate
"Janowitz, "The Poetics of Ascent: Theories of Language in a Rabbinic Ascent Text
Theurgy and the Soul: The Neoplatonism of Iamblichus. Gregory Shaw
Ethnicity and Culture in Late Antiquity
Lusting for death: Unconscious fantasies in an ancient Jewish martyrdom text
Good Jews Don't: Historical and Philosophical Constructions of Idolatry
Dedication
The Talking Cure as Action: Freud's Theory of Ritual Revisited
Rereading Sacrifice: The Semiosis of Blood
Blood gains many distinct meanings from different modes of classification, some of which are calibrated by the representational capacities of sacrifice. The Priestly source from Hebrew scriptures and the early Jewish text Second Maccabees both reread ancient sacrifice traditions, articulating new meanings for blood as part of the transformation from a temple-based locative system of animal sacrifice to a utopian decentered model of human self-sac…
Ancient Ideologies of Ineffability and Their Echoes
Ancient ideas about the limits of what can be put into words demonstrate the popularity of the notion that language is a guide to truth, even if that truth is defined by the limits of language. Two ancient and one modern example all locate truth in a reality that can be tracked both by the possibility of and the inherent failure of definition. Ancient exegetes started with the basic concept that words were both names for objects and the best form…
Dayna S. Kalleres. City of Demons: Violence, Ritual, and Christian Power in Late Antiquity
Dayna S. Kalleres’s City of Demons sets out to make demons real, tracking their “tangibility” (4) in the buildings (synagogues and temples), landscapes, and bodies of the ancient cities of Antioch, Jerusalem, and Milan. In the non-Christian landscape, she writes, John Chrysostom, Cyril of Jerusalem, and Ambrose of Milan recruited Christians to engage in battles with demon-infested buildings and bodies. Church leaders did not function only as the …
Freud’s Legacy and Modern Theories of Ineffable Trauma
Erotic Love Magic and the Problem of Female Agency
Drawing Down the Moon is an outstanding contribution to the contemporary debate about ritual practices and magic. My review focuses on two intersecting points, the definition of magic as discourse in Chapter One and the analysis of “love charms and erotic curses” in Chapter Four. I begin with the second issue, the category love magic , and will return to the first, magic as discourse, at the end. I have a fairly narrow point to make about the cat…
Framing the Intentions of Suicide Bombers
Despite the extensive information known about suicide bombings, widely-varying intentions have been used by many scholars to explain the religious motivations for the violence: these events are framed by participants as religious experiences, raising complex questions about the relationship between religious experience and violence. Recent studies use the vocabulary of religious studies-sacrifice, martyr, witness-to locate "cultures of violence" …
Horney’s dread and envy of women: Looking backwards and forwards
Philosophy (13 works) · Art (8 works) · History (8 works) · Literature (8 works) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation (6 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Theology (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works)