Mon, Feb 13
07:00PM
Mon, Feb 13
07:00PM

book talk

Singing God's Words: The Performance of Biblical Chant in Contemporary Judaism

Celebrates the publication of Singing God’s Words: The Performance of Biblical Chant in Contemporary Judaism, the first in-depth study of the meaning and experience of chanting Torah among contemporary American Jews (Oxford University Press, 2016). Rabbi Jeffrey A. Summit, Ph.D. describes how this ritual is shaped by such forces as digital technology, feminism and contemporary views of spirituality.


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