Holy Curiosity: Circumcision as a Rhetorical Concept in a Bohemian Catholic Sermon from the 18th Century

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Holy Curiosity: Circumcision as a Rhetorical Concept in a Bohemian Catholic Sermon from the 18th Century

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

The paper examines the topic of Jewish circumcision and other birth rituals in a narrow segment of three Christian literary treatments from the early modern period that are intertextually connected. Analyzing three literary genres, the paper focuses on a festive sermon by the Czech Catholic priest Štěpán František Náchodský from the beginning of the 18th century, an ethnographic description by the Christian Hebraist and Calvinist scholar Johann Buxtorf, and a polemical text by the Jewish convert to Catholicism Ernst Ferdinand Hess from the end of the 16th century. The connecting material on the basis of which the topic of circumcision is presented as a rhetorical concept, however, is primarily Náchodský’s sermon. Direct quotes from individual passages describing the circumcision celebration have completely different senses in various contexts and show how an early modern preacher could change their meaning through ellipses, alterations, and the overall framework. The paper shows how the description of circumcision was recast into homiletic works that had a much greater range of reception, and what role it may have played in the formulation of Baroque piety and in the depiction of the contemporary Jewish community in the Bohemian lands.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Holy Curiosity: Circumcision as a Rhetorical Concept in a Bohemian Catholic Sermon from the 18th Century

Popis výsledku anglicky

The paper examines the topic of Jewish circumcision and other birth rituals in a narrow segment of three Christian literary treatments from the early modern period that are intertextually connected. Analyzing three literary genres, the paper focuses on a festive sermon by the Czech Catholic priest Štěpán František Náchodský from the beginning of the 18th century, an ethnographic description by the Christian Hebraist and Calvinist scholar Johann Buxtorf, and a polemical text by the Jewish convert to Catholicism Ernst Ferdinand Hess from the end of the 16th century. The connecting material on the basis of which the topic of circumcision is presented as a rhetorical concept, however, is primarily Náchodský’s sermon. Direct quotes from individual passages describing the circumcision celebration have completely different senses in various contexts and show how an early modern preacher could change their meaning through ellipses, alterations, and the overall framework. The paper shows how the description of circumcision was recast into homiletic works that had a much greater range of reception, and what role it may have played in the formulation of Baroque piety and in the depiction of the contemporary Jewish community in the Bohemian lands.

Druh

J_SC - Článek v periodiku v databázi SCOPUS

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2019

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Judaica Bohemiae

ISSN

0022-5738

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

54

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

1

Stát vydavatele periodika

CZ - Česká republika

Počet stran výsledku

35

Strana od-do

31-65

Kód UT WoS článku

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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85069801063