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Movies and Midrash

Author : Wendy I. Zierler
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438466161
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Movies and Midrash written by Wendy I. Zierler and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brings popular cinema and Jewish religious texts into a meaningful dialogue. Finalist for the 2017 National Jewish Book Award in Modern Jewish Thought and Experience presented by the Jewish Book Council Movies and Midrash uses cinema as a springboard to discuss central Jewish texts and matters of belief. A number of books have drawn on films to explicate Christian theology and belief, but Wendy I. Zierler is the first to do so from a Jewish perspective, exploring what Jewish tradition, text, and theology have to say about the lessons and themes arising from influential and compelling films. The book uses the method of “inverted midrash”: while classical rabbinical midrash begins with exegesis of a verse and then introduces a mashal (parable) as a means of further explication, Zierler turns that process around, beginning with the culturally familiar cinematic parable and then analyzing related Jewish texts. Each chapter connects a secular film to a different central theme in classical Jewish sources or modern Jewish thought. Films covered include The Truman Show (truth), Memento (memory), Crimes and Misdemeanors (sin), Magnolia (confession and redemption), The Descendants (birthright), Forrest Gump (cleverness and simplicity), and The Hunger Games (creation of humanity in God’s image), among others. Wendy I. Zierler is Sigmund Falk Professor of Modern Jewish Literature and Feminist Studies at Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion and the author of And Rachel Stole the Idols: The Emergence of Modern Hebrew Women’s Writing.

Movies and Midrash

Author : Wendy I. Zierler
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438466153
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Movies and Midrash written by Wendy I. Zierler and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2017-08-16 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brings popular cinema and Jewish religious texts into a meaningful dialogue. Movies and Midrash uses cinema as a springboard to discuss central Jewish texts and matters of belief. A number of books have drawn on films to explicate Christian theology and belief, but Wendy I. Zierler is the first to do so from a Jewish perspective, exploring what Jewish tradition, text, and theology have to say about the lessons and themes arising from influential and compelling films. The book uses the method of inverted midrash: while classical rabbinical midrash begins with exegesis of a verse and then introduces a mashal (parable) as a means of further explication, Zierler turns that process around, beginning with the culturally familiar cinematic parable and then analyzing related Jewish texts. Each chapter connects a secular film to a different central theme in classical Jewish sources or modern Jewish thought. Films covered include The Truman Show (truth), Memento (memory), Crimes and Misdemeanors (sin), Magnolia (confession and redemption), The Descendants (birthright), Forrest Gump (cleverness and simplicity), and The Hunger Games (creation of humanity in Gods image), among others. This is a groundbreaking work of originality, insight, and high quality. It will be of great importance not only for Jewish readers but also for non-Jewish readers who long for a non-Christian perspective on popular film. I loved this book! Eric Michael Mazur, editor, Encyclopedia of Religion and Film

Kosher Movies

Author : Rabbi Herbert Cohen
Publisher : Urim Publications
ISBN 13 : 9655242315
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (552 download)

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Download or read book Kosher Movies written by Rabbi Herbert Cohen and published by Urim Publications. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crossing genres of films, this book contains movies that have lessons in them as a way of finding insights into daily life. While other critics summarize a film, focus on the amount of profanity and nudity it contains, and decide whether it's worthwhile to watch, Herbert Cohen takes a different tactic and views films as life lessons. This collection of meaningful films, with inspiring and emotional stories that help understand the plight of others, provides new ways to approach self-growth.

The Midrash

Author : Jacob Neusner
Publisher : Jason Aronson
ISBN 13 : 9780876688144
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (881 download)

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Download or read book The Midrash written by Jacob Neusner and published by Jason Aronson. This book was released on 1990 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to the seven Midrash compilations with a lucid account of their main points. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Modern Midrash

Author : David C. Jacobson
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438407726
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Modern Midrash written by David C. Jacobson and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores a central phenomenon in the development of modern Jewish literature: the retelling of tradtional Jewish narratives by twentieth-century writers. It shows how and toward what ends Biblical stories, legends, and Hasidic tales have been used in shaping modern Hebrew literature. The author's impressive knowledge and careful analysis of both early and modern Hebrew texts reveal the main literary features of the genre, while making an important contribution to current discussions of the relationship between midrash and literature, the relationship between myth (and other traditional narratives) and modern literature, and the concept of intertextuality. The book also provides many fresh insights on the various issues of modern Jewish existence addressed in these works. Among these are: the revival of the Jewish tradition by reinterpreting it in light of new values, the preservation of Jewish identity entering into Western culture, the changing roles of men and women in Jewish culture, challenges to traditional Jewish views of sexuality, attempts to physically destroy the Jewish people, moral and political issues raised by the establishment of the State of Israel, and the conflict between Jews and Arabs.

Midrash

Author : Rabbi Sandy Eisenberg Sasso
Publisher : Paraclete Press
ISBN 13 : 1612614442
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (126 download)

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Download or read book Midrash written by Rabbi Sandy Eisenberg Sasso and published by Paraclete Press. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rabbis of old believed that the Torah was divinely revealed and therefore contained eternal, perfect truths and hidden meaning that required elucidation. The meaning of a text was more complicated than simply reading it. And meaning changed over time. This understanding of how the Bible mystically relates to all of life is the fertile ground from which Midrash emerged. Rabbi Sasso explores how Midrash originated, how it is still used today, and offers new translations and interpretations of more than twenty essential Midrash texts.

The Talmud's Theological Language-Game

Author : Eugene B. Borowitz
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.

Mystery Midrash

Author : Lawrence W. Raphael
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 158023609X
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Mystery Midrash written by Lawrence W. Raphael and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2012-03-03 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Confront murder, mayhem—and your own mysteries of being. From a corporate giant's kidnapping of a rabbi, to the disappearance of the clarinetist in a klezmer band, to four rabbis' use of their text interpretation skills to help a detective solve a murder that one of them has committed, this unique collection of mysteries will enlighten you at the same time it intrigues and entertains. While featuring enough death and deception to keep the detective protagonists on their toes, each story presents the uncertainties that are a part of contemporary Jewish identity—inviting us all to confront our own mysteries of being. Throughout the stories' tangled puzzles and suspenseful adventures, the characters solve not only the "whodunit"-type mysteries, but also struggle to solve the mystery of their spiritual lives. Mystery Midrash will be a lasting delight for mystery buffs of all faith traditions.

How Do We Know This?

Author : Jay M. Harris
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791421444
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book How Do We Know This? written by Jay M. Harris and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a study of rabbinic legal interpretation (midrash) in Judaisms rabbinic, medieval, and modern periods. It shows how the rise of Reform, Conservative, and Orthodox Judaism in the modern period is tied to distinct attitudes toward the classical Jewish heritage, and specifically, toward rabbinic midrash halakah.

Doing Philosophy at the Movies

Author : Richard A. Gilmore
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791483533
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Book Synopsis Doing Philosophy at the Movies by : Richard A. Gilmore

Download or read book Doing Philosophy at the Movies written by Richard A. Gilmore and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doing Philosophy at the Movies finds the roots of profound philosophical ideas in the relatively ordinary context of popular, mostly Hollywood, movies. Richard A. Gilmore suggests that narratives of popular films like Hitchcock's Vertigo, John Ford's The Searchers, Woody Allen's Crimes and Misdemeanors, the Coen Brothers' Fargo, and Danny Boyle's Trainspotting mirror certain epiphanies in the works of great philosophers. Via Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, and Zðizûek, Gilmore addresses such themes as the nature of philosophy, the possibility of redemption through love, catharsis, the sublime, and the human problem of death. Gilmore argues that seeing these movies through the lens of certain philosophical ideas can show how deeply relevant both philosophy and the movies can be.

Somewhere Over the Rainbow

Author : Daniel Ross Goodman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0761872248
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book Somewhere Over the Rainbow written by Daniel Ross Goodman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-08-24 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do we watch movies? If we read in search of more life, as Harold Bloom is fond of saying, then we watch movies, this book proposes, in search of wonder. We watch movies in search of awe-inspiring visions, transformative experiences, and moments of emotional transcendence and spiritual sublimity. We watch movies for many of the same reasons that we engage in religion: to fill our ordinary evenings and weekends with something of the extraordinary; to connect our isolated, individual selves to something that is greater than ourselves; and because we yearn for something that is ineffable but absolutely indispensable. This book, through an exploration of some of the most intriguing films of the past two decades, illustrates how movies are partners with religion in inspiring, conveying, and helping us experience what Abraham Joshua Heschel refers to as "radical amazement": the sense that our material universe and our ordinary lives are filled with more wonders than we can ever imagine, and that it takes spiritually—as well as cinematically—trained eyes to uncover these ever-present ocular gems. In addition to illustrating how films utilize religious themes and theological motifs to convey a sense of wonder, this book offers new interpretations of key films from canonical American directors such as Martin Scorsese, Terrence Malick, Richard Linklater, Wes Anderson, and the Coen brothers.

Midrash and Literature

Author : Geoffrey H. Hartman
Publisher : New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300034530
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book Midrash and Literature written by Geoffrey H. Hartman and published by New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays discuss Jewish critical interpretations of the Bible and the influence of these writings on modern literature

The Oxford Handbook of Adaptation Studies

Author : Thomas Leitch
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199331014
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Adaptation Studies written by Thomas Leitch and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-17 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of forty new essays, written by the leading scholars in adaptation studies and distinguished contributors from outside the field, is the most comprehensive volume on adaptation ever published. Written to appeal alike to specialists in adaptation, scholars in allied fields, and general readers, it hearkens back to the foundations of adaptation studies a century and more ago, surveys its ferment of activity over the past twenty years, and looks forward to the future. It considers the very different problems in adapting the classics, from the Bible to Frankenstein to Philip Roth, and the commons, from online mashups and remixes to adult movies. It surveys a dizzying range of adaptations around the world, from Latin American telenovelas to Czech cinema, from Hong Kong comics to Classics Illustrated, from Bollywood to zombies, and explores the ways media as different as radio, opera, popular song, and videogames have handled adaptation. Going still further, it examines the relations between adaptation and such intertextual practices as translation, illustration, prequels, sequels, remakes, intermediality, and transmediality. The volume's contributors consider the similarities and differences between adaptation and history, adaptation and performance, adaptation and revision, and textual and biological adaptation, casting an appreciative but critical eye on the theory and practice of adaptation scholars--and, occasionally, each other. The Oxford Handbook of Adaptation Studies offers specific suggestions for how to read, teach, create, and write about adaptations in order to prepare for a world in which adaptation, already ubiquitous, is likely to become ever more important.

Learning to Read Midrash

Author : Simi Peters
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Learning to Read Midrash written by Simi Peters and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting a systematic approach to the study of midrash, each of the readings presented in this book attempts to reconstruct the reasoning behind midrashic commentary on biblical narrative. The goal of the book is to convey a sensitivity to the language and meanings of the Tanakh, and to develop a reverent appreciation for the language and teachings of the Jewish sages.

Jews in Popular Science Fiction

Author : Valerie Estelle Frankel
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1666901466
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book Jews in Popular Science Fiction written by Valerie Estelle Frankel and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-09-30 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume analyzes Jewish tropes in popular science fiction including Star Trek, Marvel, and other top franchises. The essays examine representations of Jewish characters and culture in the genre that range from poignant metaphor to banal tokenism.

Womanist Midrash

Author : Wilda C. Gafney
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 1611648122
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (116 download)

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Download or read book Womanist Midrash written by Wilda C. Gafney and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Womanist Midrash is an in-depth and creative exploration of the well- and lesser-known women of the Hebrew Scriptures. Using her own translations, Gafney offers a midrashic interpretation of the biblical text that is rooted in the African American preaching tradition to tell the stories of a variety of female characters, many of whom are often overlooked and nameless. Gafney employs a solid understanding of womanist and feminist approaches to biblical interpretation and the sociohistorical culture of the ancient Near East. This unique and imaginative work is grounded in serious scholarship and will expand conversations about feminist and womanist biblical interpretation.

Religion and Film: The Basics

Author : Jeanette Reedy Solano
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429639708
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book Religion and Film: The Basics written by Jeanette Reedy Solano and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-24 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religion and Film: The Basics is an accessible and engaging introduction to the history, diverse approaches, and ideas associated within the study of religion and film. Referencing films from around the world from the early 20th century to the present day, this unique introduction includes the following topics: the history and dynamics of religion and film various methods to approach religion and film the evolution of religion and film scholarship film genre and theory world religions and film unique themes—from race and gender roles to karma and redemption A fascinating range of films are discussed, from early silent films such as Hypocrites to recent releases such as Minari. Five genres are explored, including horror in The Wicker Man (UK) and Let the Right One In (Sweden), and world religions are analyzed in films such as OMG, The Big Lebowski, and Malcolm X. Tropes examined include gender in Water, karma in It’s a Wonderful Life, death in Biutiful, redemption in Magnolia, and evil in Get Out. With helpful features including recommendations for further study and key films to view, this book is an ideal starting point for students approaching religion and film for the first time as well as those interested in learning more about the field while broadening their methods, knowledge of film, and their film canon.