TEXT AS BODY, BODY AS TEXT - JUDAISM AS T EXTUAL RITUAL

In the same way as the Jewish religion stands apart from the other rel igions through its pan-textualism, Jewish rituals stand apart from tho se of other faiths through their <<textual>> character, whether one co nsiders the daily putting on of the phylacteries or the Easter meal th at seems a pure ingestion of <<signifiers>>. Double movement of these rituals: on one hand they are an anthropomorphisation of the Text, yet on the other, they imply a textualisation of the anthropos.