Narratology, Hermeneutics, and Midrash
Narratology, Hermeneutics, and Midrash

Author: Constanza Cordoni

Publisher: V&R unipress GmbH

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 3847103083

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The contributions compiled in this volume comprise studies of Jewish texts - biblical, rabbinic, medieval, and modern - as well as of patristic and medieval Christian texts, and in one case, a passage of the Muslim text par excellence, the Quran. The authors, scholars in the fields of Jewish Studies, Catholic and Protestant Theology, Islamic Studies, German philology etc., invited to reflect on texts of their respective disciplines in context-sensitive interpretations, taking into account the link connecting Midrash, hermeneutics, and narrative, provide illuminating narratological and/or hermeneutical insights into the texts in question. The interdisciplinary dialogue that characterized the conference "Narratology, Hermeneutics, and Midrash" that gave rise to the volume proves to be rich and full of potential for further research in the direction proposed by the Series Poetics, Exegesis and Narrative. Studies in Jewish literature and art.

Midrash and Multiplicity
Midrash and Multiplicity

Author: Steven Daniel Sacks

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 3110209225

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Pirke de-Rabbi Eliezer represents a late development in "midrash", or classical rabbinic interpretation, that has enlightened, intrigued and frustrated scholars of Jewish culture for the past two centuries. Pirke de-Rabbi Eliezer's challenge to scholarship includes such issues as the work's authorship and authenticity, an asymmetrical literary structure as well as its ambiguous relationship with a variety of rabbinic, Islamic and Hellenistic works of interpretation. This cluster of issues has contributed to the confusion about the work's structure, origins and identity. Midrash and Multiplicity addresses the problems raised by this equivocal work, and uses Pirke de-Rabbi Eliezer in order to assess the nature of "midrash", and the renewal of Jewish interpretive culture, during its transition to the medieval era of the early "Geonim".

The Return of the Repressed
The Return of the Repressed

Author: Rachel Adelman

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 9004170499

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Drawing on the shared mythic narratives of the Pseudepigrapha, Pirqe de-Rabbi Eliezer is understood as a revolutionary midrashic text, both in form and content, taking motifs from cosmogony and recapitulating them in a vision of the End of Days.

Exegetical Crossroads
Exegetical Crossroads

Author: Georges Tamer

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2017-12-18

Total Pages: 403

ISBN-13: 3110562936

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The art of interpreting Holy Scriptures flourished throughout the culturally heterogeneous pre-modern Orient among Jews, Christians and Muslims. Different ways of interpretation developed within each religion not without considering the others. How were the interactions and how productive were they for the further development of these traditions? Have there been blurred spaces of scholarly activity that transcended sectarian borders? What was the role played by mutual influences in profiling the own tradition against the others? These and other related questions are critically treated in the present volume.

Pirqei deRabbi Eliezer: Structure, Coherence, Intertextuality
Pirqei deRabbi Eliezer: Structure, Coherence, Intertextuality

Author: Katharina E. Keim

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2016-11-01

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 9004333126

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In Pirqei deRabbi Eliezer: Structure, Coherence, Intertextuality Katharina E. Keim offers a description of the literary character of Pirqei deRabbi Eliezer, an enigmatic work of the late-eighth-to-early-ninth centuries CE. Katharina E. Keim explores the work’s distinctive literary features through an analysis of its structure and coherence. These literary features, when taken together with the work’s intertextual relationships with antecedent and contemporaneous Christian and Jewish (rabbinic and non-rabbinic) texts, reveal Pirqei deRabbi Eliezer to be an innovative work, and throw light on a new turn in Jewish literature following the rise of Islam.

Written for Us: Paul’s Interpretation of Scripture and the History of Midrash
Written for Us: Paul’s Interpretation of Scripture and the History of Midrash

Author: Yael Fisch

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2023-01-16

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 9004511598

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This volume is a study in ancient scriptural hermeneutics, that promotes new ways to think about Paul’s interpretation of scripture and rabbinic midrash together and for the benefit of both. It analyses exegetical techniques that both Paul and the Tannaim use and opens new perspectives on how they conceive of scripture and its ideal readers.

Encyclopaedia of Midrash
Encyclopaedia of Midrash

Author: Jacob Neusner

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2022-11-07

Total Pages: 495

ISBN-13: 9004531351

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The Encyclopedia of Midrash provides a systematic account of biblical interpretation in Judaism. While emphasizing the Rabbinic literature, it also covers interpretation of Scripture in a number of distinct canons, ranging from the Targumic literature and Dead Sea Scrolls to the New Testament and Church Fathers. The Encyclopedia of Midrash provides readers with a depth and breadth of 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 each of the many topics discussed in its pages. The print edition is available as a set of two volumes (9789004141667).

The Classic Midrash
The Classic Midrash

Author: Reuven Hammer

Publisher: Paulist Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 544

ISBN-13: 9780809135035

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This volume includes commentary and interpretation of Scripture taken from the early rabbinic masters, the Tannaim, along with a running explanation of their theological, literary and historical importance. The editing of the Tannaitic Midrashim took place in the Land of Israel in the 4th to 5th centuries C.E.

Representing Jewish Thought
Representing Jewish Thought

Author: Agata Paluch

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-01-18

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 9004446141

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Representing Jewish Thought offers essays on modes and media of transmitting and re/presenting thought pertinent to Jewish past and present, zooming in on textual and visual hermeneutics to material and textual culture to performing arts.

Approaches to Literary Readings of Ancient Jewish Writings
Approaches to Literary Readings of Ancient Jewish Writings

Author: Klaas Smelik

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2013-09-26

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 9004258566

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In this volume twelve contributions discuss the relevance, accuracy, potential, and possible alternatives to a literary reading of ancient Jewish writings, especially the Hebrew Bible. Drawing on different academic fields (biblical studies, rabbinic studies, and literary studies) and on various methodologies (literary criticism, rhetorical criticism, cognitive linguistics, historical criticism, and reception history), the essays form a state-of-the-art overview of the current use of the literary approach toward ancient Jewish texts. The volume convincingly shows that the latest approaches to a literary reading can still enhance our understanding of these texts.