Midrash and the Exegetical Mind

Proceedings of the 2008 and 2009 SBL Midrash Sessions
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-4632-2433-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 217 Seiten

Reihe: Judaism in Context

Contained in this volume are the Proceedings of the Midrash session of the SBL's annual conferences in 2008 and 2009. This volume contains eight essays dealing with various aspects of rabbinic interpretation.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Heilige & Traditionstexte: Torah, Talmud, Mischna, Halacha

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Table of Contents (page 5)
- Introduction (page 7)
- 1. Rachel Adelman: Rhapsody in Blue: The Original God's Footstool in the Aramaic Targumim and Midrashic Tradition (page 13)
- 2. Isaac Kalimi: Biblical Text in Rabbinic Context: The Book of Chronicles in the Mishnah, Talmud and Midrash (page 33)
- 3. Simon Lasair: Lessons for Historiographers: Managing the Dynamics of Indeterminacy in Song of Songs Rabbah (page 53)
- 4. Erica L. Martin: The Rabbinic Knife: Why and How the Rabbis castrated Noah (page 79)
- 5. W. David Nelson: The Oral Orthography of Mishnaic and Toseftan Interpolation (page 101)
- 6. Nehemia Polen: Derashah as Performative Exegesis in Tosefta and Mishnah (page 135)
- 7. Jesse Rainbow: Sarah Saw a Hunter: The Venatic Motif in genesis rabbah 53:11 (page 167)
- 8. Ishay Rosen-Zvi: Hyper-Sexualization in the bavli: An Initial Survey (page 193)