Midrash and Theory

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Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810115743
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (157 download)

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Book Synopsis Midrash and Theory by : David Stern

Download or read book Midrash and Theory written by David Stern and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Midrash and Theory, David Stern presents an approach to midrashic literature through the prism of contemporary theory. As midrash--the literature of classical Jewish Scriptural interpretation--has become the focus of new interest in contemporary literary circles, it has been invoked as a precursor of post-structuralist theory and criticism. At the same time, the midrashic imagination has undergone a revival in the larger Jewish community and shown itself capable of exercising a powerful influence and hold on a new type of contemporary Jewish writing. Stern examines this resurgence of fascination with ancient Jewish interpretation from the persepctive of the cultural relevance of midrash and its connection to its original historical and literary contexts.

Intertextuality and the Reading of Midrash

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Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253114617
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (146 download)

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Book Synopsis Intertextuality and the Reading of Midrash by : Daniel Boyarin

Download or read book Intertextuality and the Reading of Midrash written by Daniel Boyarin and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1994-08-22 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceeding by means of intensive readings of passages from the early midrash on Exodus The Mekilta, Boyarin proposes a new theory of midrash that rests in part on an understanding of the heterogeneity of the biblical text and the constraining force of rabbinic ideology on the production of midrash. In a forceful combination of theory and reading, Boyarin raises profound questions concerning the interplay between history, ideology, and interpretation.

Parables in Midrash

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Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674654488
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (544 download)

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Book Synopsis Parables in Midrash by : David Stern

Download or read book Parables in Midrash written by David Stern and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Stern shows how the parable or mashal--the most distinctive type of narrative in midrash--was composed, how its symbolism works, and how it serves to convey the ideological convictions of the rabbis. He describes its relation to similar tales in other literatures, including the parables of Jesus in the New Testament and kabbalistic parables. Through its innovative approach to midrash, this study reaches beyond its particular subject, and will appeal to all readers interested in narrative and religion.

The Slayers of Moses

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Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438405642
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Book Synopsis The Slayers of Moses by : Susan A. Handelman

Download or read book The Slayers of Moses written by Susan A. Handelman and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this groundbreaking study, Susan Handelman examines the theological roots of the modern science of interpretation. She defines current structures of thought and patterns of organizing reality, clearly distinguishes them from previously reigning Hellenic modes of abstract thought, and connects them with important elements of the Rabbinic interpretive tradition. Hers is the first comprehensive treatment of the undeniable, and undeniably significant, influence of Jewish religious thought on contemporary literary criticism. Dr. Handelman shows how they provide a crucial link among several of the most influential modern theories of textual interpretation, from Freud to the Deconstructionist School of Lacan and Derrida, as well as current literary theorists who revive Rabbinic hermeneutics, such as Harold Bloom and Geoffrey Hartman.

Bible and Midrash

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Publisher : Peeters Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9789042914261
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (142 download)

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Book Synopsis Bible and Midrash by : Lieve M. Teugels

Download or read book Bible and Midrash written by Lieve M. Teugels and published by Peeters Publishers. This book was released on 2004 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two-part book traces the literary and historic study of the story of the 'Wooing of Rebekah' in the Hebrew Bible and its creative interpretations in Rabbinic Midrash. Part 1 treats such issues as the characterization of the narrative agents in the biblical story, the use of repetition as a narrative structuring device, and the question as to the roles of Rebekah and Isaac in this story as well as in the broader Isaac-Rebekah narratives. Part 2 follows several rabbinic interpretations of this story, dealing with, among other topics, the development of the motif of Rebekah's virginity in rabbinic aggadah and halakha as well as the reception of this theme in modern feminist studies of midrash. While treating these topics, this is at the same time a methodological inquiry into the dynamics of midrashic interpretation, treating rabbinic techniques such as 'gap-filling' and 'linkage', and its differences from modern biblical exegesis.

Current Trends in the Study of Midrash

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047417739
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)

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Book Synopsis Current Trends in the Study of Midrash by : Carol Bakhos

Download or read book Current Trends in the Study of Midrash written by Carol Bakhos and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important collection of essays by leading scholars of rabbinics reflects the current methodological approaches to the study of midrash. The volume situates midrash within the broader contexts of hermeneutics, rabbinics and postmodern studies, and thus presents a comprehensive view of the kinds of issues scholars in the field are engaging.

Jewish Literary Cultures

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Publisher : Penn State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271067520
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (675 download)

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Book Synopsis Jewish Literary Cultures by : David Stern

Download or read book Jewish Literary Cultures written by David Stern and published by Penn State University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 1. The ancient period

Web of Life

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Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804732272
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Book Synopsis Web of Life by : Galit Hasan-Rokem

Download or read book Web of Life written by Galit Hasan-Rokem and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Web of Life weaves its suggestive interpretation of Jewish culture in the Palestine of late antiquity on the warp of a singular, breathtakingly tragic, and sublime rabbinic text, Lamentations Rabbah. The textual analyses that form the core of the book are informed by a range of theoretical paradigms rarely brought to bear on rabbinic literature: structural analysis of mythologies and folktales, performative approaches to textual production, feminist theory, psychoanalytical analysis of culture, cultural criticism, and folk narrative genre analysis. The concept of context as the hermeneutic basis for literary interpretation reactivates the written text and subverts the hierarchical structures with which it has been traditionally identified. This book reinterprets rabbinic culture as an arena of multiple dialogues that traverse traditional concepts of identity regarding gender, nation, religion, and territory. The author's approach is permeated by the idea that scholarly writing about ancient texts is invigorated by an existential hermeneutic rooted in the universality of human experience. She thus resorts to personal experience as an idiom of communication between author and reader and between human beings of our time and of the past. This research acknowledges the overlap of poetic and analytical language as well as the language of analysis and everyday life. In eliciting folk narrative discourses inside the rabbinic text, the book challenges traditional views about the social basis that engendered these texts. It suggests the subversive potential of the constitutive texts of Jewish culture from late antiquity to the present by pointing out the inherent multi-vocality of the text, adding to the conventionally acknowledged synagogue and academy the home, the marketplace, and other private and public socializing institutions.

Jewish Literary Cultures

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Publisher : Penn State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271084848
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (848 download)

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Download or read book Jewish Literary Cultures written by and published by Penn State University Press. This book was released on 2023-11-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays and studies of diverse texts and topics in medieval and early modern Jewish literature, using contemporary critical approaches and textual analysis to explore larger ideas and themes in rabbinic Judaism.

Encyclopaedia of Midrash

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Publisher : SBL Press
ISBN 13 : 9780884141297
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (412 download)

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Book Synopsis Encyclopaedia of Midrash by : Jacob Neusner

Download or read book Encyclopaedia of Midrash written by Jacob Neusner and published by SBL Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of Midrash provides readers with a deep, broad treatment of Midrash unavailable in any other single source. Through the writings of top scholars in each of their fields, it sets out the current state of the question for the many topics discussed throughout the two-volume set. Included are a general introduction to Rabbinic Midrash and its traits (the theoretical questions of definition, origins, theology, hermeneutics, genre-criticism, and language), discussion of rabbinic midrashic documents focused on specific books of Scripture, the theology expressed by rabbinic midrashic compilations, and the historical context in which rabbinic Midrash took shape. Beyond these central issues in understanding rabbinic Midrash, the encyclopedia treats interpretations of Scripture that came to closure prior to, or outside of, the framework of rabbinic Midrash: Hellenistic Jewish Midrash, Josephus, Pseudo-Philo, Jubilees, as well as to the New Testament, Karaite and Samaritan writings, and the Dead Sea Scrolls.

From Tradition to Commentary

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Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438403143
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Book Synopsis From Tradition to Commentary by : Steven D. Fraade

Download or read book From Tradition to Commentary written by Steven D. Fraade and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines Torah and its interpretation both as a recurring theme in the early rabbinic commentary and as the very practice of the commentary. It studies the phenomenon of ancient rabbinic scriptural commentary in relation to the perspectives of literary and historical criticisms and their complex intersection. The author discusses extensively the nature of ancient commentary, comparing and contrasting it with the antecedents in the pesharim of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the allegorical commentaries of Philo of Alexandria. He develops a model for a dynamic understanding of the literary structure and sociohistorical function of early rabbinic commentary, and then applies this model to the Sifre — to the oldest extant running commentary to Deuteronomy and one of the oldest rabbinic collections of exegesis. Fraade examines the commentary's representation of revelation and its reception at Mt. Sinai, with particular attention to its fractured refiguration and interrelation of Scripture, tradition, and history. He discusses the commentary's discursive empowering of the class of sages in their collective self-understanding as Israel's authorized teachers, leaders, legislators, and judges. The author also probes the tension between Torah and nature as witnesses to Israel's covenant with God.

The Talmud's Theological Language-Game

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Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791467022
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (67 download)

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Book Synopsis The Talmud's Theological Language-Game by : Eugene B. Borowitz

Download or read book The Talmud's Theological Language-Game written by Eugene B. Borowitz and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2007-06-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzes the structure and logic of aggadic discourse in the Talmud.

Rewriting the Self

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351307266
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)

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Book Synopsis Rewriting the Self by : Mordechai Rotenberg

Download or read book Rewriting the Self written by Mordechai Rotenberg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-27 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the term midrash--from the Hebrew darash, searched or interpreted--can refer to both legal and extralegal scriptural exegesis, it most commonly refers to symbolic legends, stories, and parables used to make moral or ethical concepts accessible to the layman. As such, midrash encompasses an open-ended method of exposition that often allows for the coexistence of seemingly contradictory interpretations of holy writ in a kind of dialogue with each other. In Rewriting the Self, Mordechai Rotenberg illustrates how "midrashic" dialogue between a person's past and present may assist in the reorganization of ostensibly contrasting conditions or positions, so that by reinterpreting a failing past according to future aspirations, cognitive discord may be reduced and one may begin to rehabilitate and enhance one's life. Rotenberg argues that the foundations of what he calls a "dialogic" psychology of progress, as well as a pluralistic, free choice approach to psychotherapy, may be identified in Judaism's midrashic "metacode." From a practical, therapeutic perspective, a teacher or therapist would no longer be an elite interpreter of a student or client's past, authorized to give the only authentic analysis of that person's problems. Rather, he would be able to offer a variety of options, both rational and emotional. In Rewriting the Self, Rotenberg demonstrates his theory with several case studies of "rewriting" oneself from both the Midrash and Talmud. He contrasts this method with other psychotherapies. This volume is the third in a trilogy (the previous two, Damnation and Deviance and Hasidic Psychology, are also published by Transaction) that seeks to present a "dialogistic" psychology as an alternative framework to the perspective that predominates in Western social sciences. It is an original work that will be welcomed by psychotherapists, social scientists, and students of theology.

Sustaining Fictions

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0567536459
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (675 download)

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Book Synopsis Sustaining Fictions by : Lesleigh Cushing Stahlberg

Download or read book Sustaining Fictions written by Lesleigh Cushing Stahlberg and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even before the biblical canon became fixed, writers have revisited and reworked its stories. The author of Joshua takes the haphazard settlement of Israel recorded in the Book of Judges and retells it as an orderly military conquest. The writer of Chronicles expurgates the David cycle in Samuel I and II, offering an upright and virtuous king devoid of baser instincts. This literary phenomenon is not contained to inner-biblical exegesis. Once the telling becomes known, the retellings begin: through the New Testament, rabbinic midrash, medieval mystery plays, medieval and Renaissance poetry, nineteenth century novels, and contemporary literature, writers of the Western world have continued to occupy themselves with the biblical canon. However, there exists no adequate vocabulary-academic or popular, religious or secular, literary or theological-to describe the recurring appearances of canonical figures and motifs in later literature. Literary critics, bible scholars and book reviewers alike seek recourse in words like adaptation, allusion, echo, imitation and influence to describe what the author, for lack of better terms, has come to call retellings or recastings. Although none of these designations rings false, none approaches precision. They do not tell us what the author of a novel or poem has done with a biblical figure, do not signal how this newly recast figure is different from other recastings of it, and do not offer any indication of why these transformations have occurred. Sustaining Fictions sets out to redress this problem, considering the viability of the vocabularies of literary, midrashic, and translation theory for speaking about retelling.

The Origins of Midrash: From Teaching to Text

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004336885
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Book Synopsis The Origins of Midrash: From Teaching to Text by : Paul D. Mandel

Download or read book The Origins of Midrash: From Teaching to Text written by Paul D. Mandel and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-05-22 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, Paul Mandel presents a study of the words darash and midrash from the Bible until rabbinic literature, claiming that the words refer to instruction in law and not to interpretation of text.

Midrash as Literature

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Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 159244220X
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (924 download)

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Book Synopsis Midrash as Literature by : Jacob Neusner

Download or read book Midrash as Literature written by Jacob Neusner and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2003-04-16 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

What is Midrash? ; And, A Midrash Reader

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Publisher : University of South Florida
ISBN 13 : 9781555409821
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (98 download)

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Book Synopsis What is Midrash? ; And, A Midrash Reader by : Jacob Neusner

Download or read book What is Midrash? ; And, A Midrash Reader written by Jacob Neusner and published by University of South Florida. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: