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Author : Jacob Neusner
Publisher : Jason Aronson
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0876688148
An introduction to the seven Midrash compilations with a lucid account of their main points. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Jewish Publication Society
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0827610211
Searching for Meaning in Midrash explores the fascinating body of Jewish literature called Midrash--creative interpretations of the Bible that are designed to reveal hidden or deeper meaning in Scripture. Each of the over 50 midrashim sit next to its corresponding biblical text so that readers can compare them, along with commentary on the times and insights of the Rabbis who wrote each midrash. Readers are given guidance for answering "What does this text mean to me?"
Author : Wilfred Shuchat
Publisher : Devora Publishing
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1930143400
For over 1000 years, the secrets of the Jewish psyche have been the province of the few who could master the language and nuances of The Midrash Rabbah, the greatest biblical commentary ever produced by the hand of man. Now, for the first time, the original Hebrew text, along with a cogent English language translation and a new groundbreaking analysis and interpretation of this master commentary is presented in a definitive work. Read it to discover the vast storehouse of knowledge that has kept Judaism vibrant and alive.
Author : Rivka Ulmer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Egypt
ISBN : 9783110223927
Rabbinic midrash of late antiquity and the early medieval period visualized Egypt and presented Egyptian religious concepts and icons. Midrash is analyzed in a cross-cultural perspective utilizing insights from the discipline of Egyptology. Topics: the Greco-Roman Nile god, Isis, Serapis and other gods, festivals, mummy portraits, funeral customs, the Egyptian language, Pharaohs, Cleopatra, Alexandria, the divine eye. The hermeneutical role of Egyptian cultural icons in midrash is explored.
Author : Wilda C. Gafney
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 066423903X
Womanist Midrash is an in-depth and creative exploration of the well- and lesser-known women of the Hebrew Scriptures. Using her own translations, Gafney offers a midrashic interpretation of the biblical text that is rooted in the African American preaching tradition to tell the stories of a variety of female characters, many of whom are often overlooked and nameless. Gafney employs a solid understanding of womanist and feminist approaches to biblical interpretation and the sociohistorical culture of the ancient Near East. This unique and imaginative work is grounded in serious scholarship and will expand conversations about feminist and womanist biblical interpretation.
Author : Benjamin J. Segal
Publisher : U'd Syn Conservative Judaism
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Haggadot
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Katherine Brown Downey
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2004-11-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0826416225
Downey uses Oscar Wilde's Salome and Andre Gide's Saul to discuss censorship of biblical drama from the sixteenth century through the nineteenth century.
Author : Michael Isaacson
Publisher : Michael Isaacson
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Compact discs
ISBN : 091461536X
Author : Bernard H. Mehlman,Seth M. Limmer
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004331334
Medieval Midrash: The House for Inspired Innovation is the first treatment of this curious genre. Illuminating matters of historicity and origin with translations of six Solomon texts, Mehlman and Limmer address questions regarding Medieval Midrash and the need for creative religious expression.
Author : Carol Bakhos
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789047417736
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.
Author : Steven Daniel Sacks
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110209228
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".
Author : Reuven Hammer
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0809135035
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.
Author : Benjamin Williams
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780191077043
Printed editions of midrashim, rabbinic expositions of the Bible, flooded the market for Hebrew books in the sixteenth century. First published by Iberian immigrants to the Ottoman Empire, they were later reprinted in large numbers at the famous Hebrew presses of Venice. This study seeks to shed light on who read these new books and how they did so by turning to the many commentaries on midrash written during the sixteenth century. These innovative works reveal how their authors studied rabbinic Bible interpretation and how they anticipated their readers would do so. Benjamin WIlliams focuses particularly on the work of Abraham ben Asher of Safed, the Or ha-Sekhel (Venice, 1567), an elucidation of midrash Genesis Rabba which contains both the author's own interpretations and also the commentary he mistakenly attributed to the most celebrated medieval commentator Rashi. Williams examines what is known of Abraham ben Asher's life, his place among the Jewish scholars of Safed, and the publication of his book in Venice. By analysing selected passages of his commentary, this study assesses how he shed light on rabbinic interpretation of Genesis and guided readers to correct interpretations of the words of the sages. A consideration of why Abraham ben Asher published a commentary attributed to Rashi shows that he sought to lend authority to his programme of studying midrash by including interpretations ascribed to the most famous commentator alongside his own. By analysing the production and reception of the Or ha-Sekhel, therefore, this work illuminates the popularity of midrash in the early modern period and the origins of a practice which is now well-established-the study of rabbinic Bible interpretation with the guidance of commentaries.
Author : Wendy I. Zierler
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781438466163
Brings popular cinema and Jewish religious texts into a meaningful dialogue. Finalist for the 2017 National Jewish Book Award in Modern Jewish Thought and Experience presented by the Jewish Book Council Movies and Midrash uses cinema as a springboard to discuss central Jewish texts and matters of belief. A number of books have drawn on films to explicate Christian theology and belief, but Wendy I. Zierler is the first to do so from a Jewish perspective, exploring what Jewish tradition, text, and theology have to say about the lessons and themes arising from influential and compelling films. The book uses the method of “inverted midrash”: while classical rabbinical midrash begins with exegesis of a verse and then introduces a mashal (parable) as a means of further explication, Zierler turns that process around, beginning with the culturally familiar cinematic parable and then analyzing related Jewish texts. Each chapter connects a secular film to a different central theme in classical Jewish sources or modern Jewish thought. Films covered include The Truman Show (truth), Memento (memory), Crimes and Misdemeanors (sin), Magnolia (confession and redemption), The Descendants (birthright), Forrest Gump (cleverness and simplicity), and The Hunger Games (creation of humanity in God’s image), among others. Wendy I. Zierler is Sigmund Falk Professor of Modern Jewish Literature and Feminist Studies at Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion and the author of And Rachel Stole the Idols: The Emergence of Modern Hebrew Women’s Writing.
Author : M.D. Goulder
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 547 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2004-09-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781592445851
This challenging and original book questions the accepted conclusions of synoptic research. It argues, first, that Matthew is an adaptation and expansion of Mark by midrash - that is, by standard Jewish expository techniques - depending on no written source other than Mark, and only to a very small extent on oral tradition; and, secondly, that Matthew was written to be read in Christian worship round the year, as a cycle of lessons following the Jewish festal lectionary. Part I establishes the characteristics of the Matthaean manner - his vocabulary, his rhythms and images, the form and mode of his parables. With so much typical of Matthew as a gospel, sources other than Mark become progressively less plausible. Part II is a commentary on the gospel from this base. It finds a basic Marcan text for each new unit and a reason for its development, and works out in detail the correspondence between the five teaching sections of Matthew and the five Jewish festal seasons of Pentecost, New Year-Atonement, Tabernacles, Dedication, and Passover. A striking piece of corroborative evidence is found in the section numbers of the old Greek manuscript tradition. Michael Goulder believes that lectionary schemes also underlie Mark and Luke, and that at least one major part of the Old Testament, the work of the Chronicler, has a similar character. A gospel, in fact, is not a literary genre at all, but a liturgical one. Matthew himself comes into focus as a converted Jewish scribe who possessed the substance of the Pauline teaching, and who has been the dominant influence in forming the Church's image of Jesus in his adaptation of Mark by midrash and through lection.
