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Author: Simi Peters
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Published: 2004
Total Pages: 320
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresenting 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.
Author: David Stern
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9780674654488
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDavid 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.
Author: Paul D. Mandel
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2017-05-22
Total Pages: 423
ISBN-13: 9004336885
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn The Origins of Midrash: From Teaching to Text, Paul Mandel presents a comprehensive study of the words darash and midrash from the Bible until the early rabbinic periods (3rd century CE). In contrast to current understandings in which the words are identified with modes of analysis of the biblical text, Mandel claims that they refer to instruction in law and not to an interpretation of text. Mandel traces the use of these words as they are associated with the scribe (sofer), the doresh ha-torah in the Dead Sea scrolls, the “exegetes of the laws” in the writings of Josephus and the rabbinic “sage” (ḥakham), showing the development of the uses of midrash as a form of instruction throughout these periods.
Author: Heinrich Walter Guggenheimer
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9783110411652
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jacob Neusner
Publisher: Jason Aronson
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 672
ISBN-13: 9780876688144
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn introduction to the seven Midrash compilations with a lucid account of their main points. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author: Laura Duhan-Kaplan
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2021-05-13
Total Pages: 94
ISBN-13: 1725259052
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Hebrew Bible is filled with animals. Snakes and ravens share meals with people; donkeys and sheep work alongside us; eagles and lions inspire us; locusts warn us. How should we read their stories? What can they teach us about ecology, spirituality, and ethics? Author Laura Duhan-Kaplan explores these questions, weaving together biology, Kabbalah, rabbinic midrash, Indigenous wisdom, modern literary methods, and personal experiences. She re-imagines Jacob’s sheep as family, Balaam’s donkey as a spiritual director, Eve’s snake as a misguided helper. Finally, Rabbi Laura invites metaphorical eagles, locusts, and mother bears to help us see anew, confront human violence, and raise children who live peacefully on the land.
Author: Jay M. Harris
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 1995-01-01
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13: 9780791421444
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Author: Hermann Leberecht Strack
Publisher: Fortress Press
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Total Pages: 450
ISBN-13: 9781451409147
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGunter Stemberger's revision of H. L. Strack's classic introduction to rabbinic literature, which appeared in its first English edition in 1991, was widely acclaimed. Gunter Stemberger and Markus Bockmuehl have now produced this updated edition, which is a significant revision (completed in 1996) of the 1991 volume. Following Strack's original outline, Stemberger discusses first the historical framework, the basic principles of rabbinic literature and hermeneutics and the most important Rabbis. The main part of the book is devoted to the Talmudic and Midrashic literature in the light of contemporary rabbinic research. The appendix includes a new section on electronic resources for the study of the Talmud and Midrash. The result is a comprehensive work of reference that no student of rabbinics can afford to be without.
Author: James L. Kugel
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 700
ISBN-13: 9780674069411
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLeading us chapter by chapter through the Hebrew Bible’s most important stories—from the Creation and the Tree of Knowledge through the Exodus from Egypt and the journey to the Promised Land—Kugel shows how a group of anonymous ancient interpreters radically transformed the Bible and made it into the book that has come down to us today.
Author: Jacob Neusner
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2014-08-05
Total Pages: 123
ISBN-13: 1498200834
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book introduces Midrash both in general and through many examples of the kinds of Midrash that flourished among ancient Judaism. Neusner, as a preeminent authority on the subject, lays special emphasis upon the exegesis of Scripture produced by the Judaism of the dual Torah, oral and written.
