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The Midrashic Imagination
Author | : Michael Fishbane |
Publsiher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2012-02-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781438402871 |
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This innovative and original book examines the broad range of Jewish interpretation from antiquity through the medieval and renaissance periods. Its primary focus is on Midrash and midrashic creativity, including the entire range of nonlegal interpretations of the Bible. Considering Midrash as a literary and cultural form, the book explores aspects of classical Midrash from various angles including mythmaking and parables. The relationship between this exoteric mode and more esoteric forms in late antiquity is also examined. This work also focuses on some of the major genres of medieval biblical exegesis: plain sense, allegory, and mystical.
The Exegetical Imagination
Author | : Michael Fishbane |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 1998-10-30 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 067427461X |
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Exegesis - interpretation and explanation of sacred texts - is the quintessence of rabinic thought. This volume delineates the connections between biblical interpretation and Jewish religious thought.
Midrash and Theory
Author | : David Stern |
Publsiher | : Northwestern University Press |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0810115743 |
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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.
The Midrashic Impulse and the Contemporary Literary Response to Trauma
Author | : Monica Osborne |
Publsiher | : Lexington Books |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2017-12-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781498564915 |
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This book explores contemporary writers’ use of nonrepresentational techniques, similar to those of ancient rabbis who composed classical Midrash, as they grapple with the violence of our era. With particular attention paid to Holocaust literature, the book identifies an important trend in literature about collective trauma.
Modern Midrash
Author | : David C. Jacobson |
Publsiher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 235 |
Release | : 2012-02-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781438407722 |
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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.
Scripture and Knowledge
Author | : Shlomo Bîderman |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9004101543 |
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Scripture and Knowledge clarifies the epistemological uses of scripture and examines some of the ways in which these uses have been understood in religious traditions. The author contends that philosophers have neglected scripture as a means of understanding religion. He shows the inadequacy of prevalent emphases on either the content or the social function of scripture as the sole measure of its role. As the author demonstrates, scripture has a unique epistemological aspect, that of a framework that gives believers a total picture of the world and its significance. A discussion of the knowledge claims made by scripture and of the authority by which these claims are justified is accompanied by extended examples from Jewish and Hindu sources.
Current Trends in the Study of Midrash
Author | : Carol Bakhos |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 2022-01-04 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9789047417736 |
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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.
How Do We Know This
Author | : Jay M. Harris |
Publsiher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 1995-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0791421449 |
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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.