Rewriting The Torah

Author : Jeffrey Stackert
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 3161492986

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Rewriting the Torah by Jeffrey Stackert Pdf

Jeffrey Stackert explores literary correspondences among the pentateuchal legal corpora and especially the relationships between similar laws in Deuteronomy and the Holiness Legislation (Lev 17-26, the so-called "Holiness Code," as well as significant parts of the Priestly source elsewhere in the Pentateuch). Resemblances between these law collections range from broad structure to fine detail and include treatments of similar legal topics, correlations with regard to sequence of laws, and precise grammatical and lexical correspondences. Yet the nature and basis of these resemblances persist as debated points among biblical scholars. Through an analysis of the pentateuchal laws on asylum, seventh-year release, manumission, and tithes, the author argues that the Holiness Legislation depends upon both the Covenant Collection and Deuteronomy. He also elucidates the compositional logic of the Holiness legislators, showing that these authors do not simply replicate pre-existing legal content. Rather, they employ a method of literary revision in which they reconceptualize source material according to their own ideological biases. In the end, the Holiness Legislation proves to be a "super law" that collects and distills the Priestly and non-Priestly laws that precede it. By accommodating, reformulating, and incorporating various viewpoints from these sources, the Holiness authors create a work that is intended to supersede them all.

Author : Marcus Mordecai Schwartz
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783161541230

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Rewriting the Talmud by Marcus Mordecai Schwartz Pdf

In this study, Marcus Mordecai Schwartz argues that there were two distinct periods in which traditions from Rabbinic Palestine exerted their influence upon extended passages of B. Rosh Hashanah. This doubling of influence resulted in a Babylonian-born text with two distinct Palestinian ancestries. This oddly mixed parentage was responsible for Bavli texts that both resemble synoptic passages in the Yerusalmi and differ from them in substantial ways. The main project of this book is to trace the dynamics of this doubled Palestinian influence and to account for the mark it left on passages of B. Rosh Hashanah.

Author : Bernd Schipper,D. Andrew Teeter
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004257368

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Wisdom and Torah by Bernd Schipper,D. Andrew Teeter Pdf

A proper assessment of the manifold relationships that obtain between “wisdom” and “Torah” in the Second Temple Period has fascinated generations of interpreters. The essays of the present collection seek to understand this key relationship by focusing attention on specific instances of the reception of “Torah” in Wisdom literature and the shaping of Torah by wisdom. Taking the concepts of wisdom and torah in the various literary strata of the book of Deuteronomy as a point of departure, the remainder of the book examines the relationship between wisdom and Torah in Wisdom literature of the Second Temple period, including Proverbs, Qohelet, Ps 19 and 119, Baruch, Ben Sira, Wisdom, sapiential and rewritten scriptural texts from Qumran, and the Wisdom of Solomon.

Author : George Robinson
Publisher : Schocken
Page : 621 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2006-10-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780805241860

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Essential Torah by George Robinson Pdf

Whether you are studying the Bible for the first time or you're simply curious about its history and contents, you will find everything you need in this "accessible, well-written handbook to Jewish belief as set forth in the Torah" (The Jerusalem Post). George Robinson, author of the acclaimed Essential Judaism, begins by recounting the various theories of the origins of the Torah and goes on to explain its importance as the core element in Jewish belief and practice. He discusses the basics of Jewish theology and Jewish history as they are derived from the Torah, and he outlines how the Dead Sea Scrolls and other archaeological discoveries have enhanced our understanding of the Bible. He introduces us to the vast literature of biblical commentary, chronicles the evolution of the Torah’s place in the synagogue service, offers an illuminating discussion of women and the Bible, and provides a study guide as a companion for individual or group Bible study. In the book’s centerpiece, Robinson summarizes all fifty-four portions that make up the Torah and gives us a brilliant distillation of two thousand years of biblical commentaries—from the rabbis of the Mishnah and the Talmud to medieval commentators such as Rashi, Maimonides, and ibn Ezra to contemporary scholars such as Nahum Sarna, Nechama Leibowitz, Robert Alter, and Everett Fox. This extraordinary volume—which includes a listing of the Torah reading cycles, a Bible time line, glossaries of terms and biblical commentators, and a bibliography—will stand as the essential sourcebook on the Torah for years to come.

Author : Martin S. Jaffee
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780195140675

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Torah in the Mouth by Martin S. Jaffee Pdf

Through analysis of the evidence, Martin Jaffee shows that the Rabbinic tradition, as we have it in the present, developed through a mutual interpretation of oral and written modes but that the oral tradition always takes precedence.

Author : Sol Scharfstein
Publisher : KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1602800200

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Torah and Commentary by Sol Scharfstein Pdf

Author : Jacob Neusner,William Scott Green
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2003-07-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781592442980

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Writing with Scripture by Jacob Neusner,William Scott Green Pdf

Analyzes how, in the formation of Judaism, the written Torah, also called the Hebrew Bible and Old Testament, relate to and served the dual Torah, which consisted of both oral and written elements. Argues against holding up the written texts alone as "proofs," and that the written and oral forms comprised a single, seamless whole. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Abraham Joshua Heschel
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 876 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0826408028

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Heavenly Torah by Abraham Joshua Heschel Pdf

his most ambitious scholarly achievement, his three-volume study of Rabbinic Judaism, is only now appearing in English.

Author : Paul Heger
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004151666

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Cult As the Catalyst for Division by Paul Heger Pdf

Conflicting rules of the correct procedures of the Temple cult, whose significance demanded absolute exactitude and uniformity, precluded common public rituals and created the schism

Author : Molly M. Zahn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-11
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9781108477581

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Genres of Rewriting in Second Temple Judaism by Molly M. Zahn Pdf

A study of the many different ways ancient Jewish scribes changed, or rewrote, the sacred and authoritative traditions they inherited.

Author : Tamar Biala
Publisher : Hbi Jewish Women
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1684580951

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Dirshuni by Tamar Biala Pdf

A unique compilation of contemporary women's midrashim. Dirshuni: Contemporary Women's Midrash, is the first-ever English edition of a historic collection of midrashim composed by Israeli women, which has been long-anticipated by multiple American audiences, including synagogues, rabbinical seminaries, adult learning programs, Jewish educators, and scholars of gender and religion. Using the classical forms developed by the ancient rabbis, the contributors express their religious and moral thought and experience through innovative interpretations of scripture. The women writers, from all denominations and beyond, of all political stripes and ethnic backgrounds, contribute their Torah to fill the missing half of the sacred Jewish bookshelf. This book reflects dramatic changes in the agency of women in the world of religious writings. The volume features a comprehensive introduction to Midrash for the uninitiated reader by the distinguished scholar Tamar Kadari and extensive annotation and commentary by Tamar Biala.

Author : Elyse Goldstein
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2001-01-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781580237765

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ReVisions by Elyse Goldstein Pdf

What does it mean to re-vision Torah? "I use the title ReVisions for this book because I want readers both to revise―in the classic definition of reexamine and alter―and to see the text anew, to have a new vision, a 'revision,' of Torah.... It begins with the notion that women see the text differently than men do, ask different questions and bring different answers.... This book is not about rewriting the Torah. It is about rereading it." ―from the Introduction Rabbi Elyse Goldstein―woman, rabbi, scholar, and feminist―challenges and defends, rereads and reinterprets the ancient text, revealing to modern readers a way to see Judaism anew, for a new vision―a "revision"―of the Torah. Goldstein boldly brings the Torah into a contemporary context at the same time she honestly reconciles its past.

Author : Sidnie White Crawford
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2008-04-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780802847409

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Rewriting Scripture in Second Temple Times by Sidnie White Crawford Pdf

Meeting a need for quality English-language resources on the Dead Sea Scrolls, this series makes available to readers at all levels the best of current Dead Sea Scrolls research, showing how the Scrolls impact our understanding of the Bible, Judaism, and Christianity.

Author : Devorah Dimant,Reinhard G. Kratz
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110290554

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Rewriting and Interpreting the Hebrew Bible by Devorah Dimant,Reinhard G. Kratz Pdf

The present volume is one of the first to concentrate on a specific theme of biblical interpretation in the Dead Sea Scrolls, namely the book of Genesis. In particular the volume is concerned with the links displayed by the Qumranic biblical interpetation to the inner-biblical interpretation and the final shaping of the Hebrew scriptures. Moshe Bar-Asher studies cases of such inner biblical interpretative comments; Michael Segal deals with the Garden of Eden story in the scrolls and other contemporary Jewish sources; Reinhard Kratz analizes the story of the Flood as preamble for the lives of the Patriarchs in the Hebrew Bible; Devorah Dimant examines this theme in the Qumran scrolls; Roman Viehlhauer explores the story of Sodom and Gomorrah; George Brooke and Atar Livneh discuss aspects of Jacob’s career; Harald Samuel review the career of Levi; Liora Goldman examines the Aramaic work the Visions of Amram; Lawrence Schiffman and Aharon Shemesh discuss halakhic aspects of stories about the Patriarchs; Moshe Bernstein provides an overview of the references to the Patriarchs in the Qumran scrolls.

Author : Yocheved Rottenberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798576015696

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Write Your Way Home by Yocheved Rottenberg Pdf

Therapeutic writing allows us access to our inner world through unique exercises that enable us to grow, understand ourselves, and change our lives for the better.Using proven writing techniques alongside authentic Jewish sources culled from a wealth of Torah wisdom, Write Your Way Home will guide you to effective writing exercises that will help you develop greater inner satisfaction, better relationships with the people around you, and a deeper connection to God.