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Genre/Form: | Aufsatzsammlung Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Michael Fishbane; Joanna Weinberg |
ISBN: | 9781904113713 1904113710 |
OCLC Number: | 176925629 |
Description: | vi, 472 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Introduction / Michael Fishbane and Joanna Weinberg -- Midrash and the meaning of scripture / Michael Fishbane -- The hand upon the lord's throne: midrashic and targumic perceptions of Exodus 17: 14-16 / Robert Hayward -- Unwashed hands: a midrashic controversy in the gospel of Matthew / Piet van Boxel -- 'Tradunt Hebraei': the problem of the function and reception of Jewish Midrash in Jerome / Alison Salvesen -- Midrash in Syriac / Sebastian Brock -- Piyut and Midrash: between poetic invention and rabbinic convention / Michael Fishbane -- The mourners for Zion and the suffering messiah: Pesikta rabati 34: structure, theology, and context / Philip Alexander -- The Toledot yeshu as Midrash / William Horbury -- Storytelling as midrashic discourse in the Middle Ages / Eli Yassif -- Performative Midrash in the memory of Ashkenazi martyrs / Ivan G. Marcus -- Midrash in a lexical key: Nathan ben Yehiel's Arukh / Joanna Weinberg -- Rashi's choice: the Pentateuch commentary as rewritten Midrash / Ivan G. Marcus -- The pendulum of exegetical methodology: from peshat to derash and back / Sara Japhet -- Midrashic texts and methods in Tosafist Torah commentaries / Ephraim Kanarfogel -- Zoharic literature and midrashic temporality / Elliot Wolfson -- The ingathering of Midrash Rabbah: a moment of creativity and innovation / Benjamin Williams -- Midrash in medieval and early modern sermons / Marc Saperstein -- Rabbi Judah Loew of Prague and his attitude to the aggadah / Jacob Elbaum -- The destruction of the Temple: a Yiddish booklet for the Ninth of Av / Jacob Elbaum and Chava Turniansky -- Midrash in Habad Hasidism / Naftali Loewenthal. |
Series Title: | Littman library of Jewish civilization (Series) |
Responsibility: | edited by Michael Fishbane and Joanna Weinberg. |
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Publisher Synopsis
'[Midrash Unbound] is, both in the field of Judaism but also in the various historical disciplines of religious studies and theology, indispensable.'Goerge K. Hasselhoff, Brill Review 'Midrash Unbound is a significant and substantial contribution to the study of midrashic literature, method and process as manifested in diverse Jewish sources and select non-Jewish writings, from Late Antiquity to the Modern age. Fishbane and Weinberg have brought together an impressive array of scholars to explore the nature of Midrash in varied historical and geographical contexts, pointing out, as the aptly chosen title suggests, transformations and innovations in the development of the genre. [...] It is a volume that enriches and meaningfully extends discussion on how we can understand Midrash and its development in diverse literary forms and historical contexts.' Dr Helen Spurling, BAJS Review Read more...

