Sara R Epstein

Piety and Fanaticism: Rabbinic Criticism of Religious Stringency [An Open Discussion of the Talmudic Rabbis' Views on Self-imposed Religious Stringency]

Within traditional Judaism, religious piety and intensity, representing the earnest and passionate desire to serve God, is often expressed in both the strictest observance of halakhah, Jewish law, and in practices above and beyond the demands of the law. The second such behavior is termed "super-ero...

Preternature V1:2: Anomalous Ethnographies (<i>Preternature: Critical and Historical Studies on the Preternatural</i>)

Preternature V1.2 offers a rich and varied investigation of some of the strange and wonderful monsters and oddities that colonised the minds—and the world—of Europeans from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. This issue features five scholarly essays that offer new and innovative examinations o...

Piety and Fanaticism: Rabbinic Criticism of Religious Stringency

Within traditional Judaism, religious piety and intensity, representing the earnest and passionate desire to serve God, is often expressed in both the strictest observance of halakhah, Jewish law, and in practices above and beyond the demands of the law. The second such behavior is termed "super-ero...

The Monster Under The Bed: Child Rearing When a Parent Is Chronically Ill