The Three Blessings —— Boundaries, Censorship, and Identity in Jewish Liturgy

----- 三个祝福：犹太礼拜仪式的边界，审查和身分

ISBN: 9780195373295 出版年：2011 页码：237 Kahn, Yoel Oxford University Press

In the traditional Jewish liturgy, a man praises God daily for not having been made a gentile, a woman, or a slave. Manuscript editions of the Babylonian Talmud teach that recitation of this prayer is obligatory for all Jewish men. Despite the fact that these blessings have been officially part of the daily morning liturgy for more than a thousand years, the propriety of whether and how to recite them is an ongoing subject of debate. Yoel Kahn offers the first longitudinal study of the evolving language, usage, and interpretation of a Jewish liturgical text over its entire 2000 year life-span.