The Midrashic Process

Author : Irving Jacobs
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1995-02-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 052146174X

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The Midrashic Process by Irving Jacobs Pdf

The purpose of this book is to re-examine those basic issues in the study of Midrash which to some extent have been marginalised by trends in scholarship and research. Irving Jacobs asks, for example, whether the early rabbinic exegetes had a concept of peshat, plain meaning, and, if so, what significance they attached to it in their exposition of the biblical text. He enquires if the selection of proemial and proof-texts was a random one, dependent purely upon the art or whim of the preacher, or rather if exegetical traditions linked certain pentateuchal themes with specific sections of the Prophets (and particularly the Hagiographa), which were acknowledged by preachers and audiences alike. As Midrash in its original, pre-literary form, was a living process involving both live preachers and live audiences in the ancient synagogues of the Holy Land, to what extent, he asks, did the latter influence the former in the development of their art and skills?

Author : Michael Fishbane
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438402871

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The Midrashic Imagination by Michael Fishbane Pdf

This innovative and original book examines the broad range of Jewish interpretation from antiquity through the medieval and renaissance periods. Its primary focus is on Midrash and midrashic creativity, including the entire range of nonlegal interpretations of the Bible. Considering Midrash as a literary and cultural form, the book explores aspects of classical Midrash from various angles including mythmaking and parables. The relationship between this exoteric mode and more esoteric forms in late antiquity is also examined. This work also focuses on some of the major genres of medieval biblical exegesis: plain sense, allegory, and mystical.

Author : William Cutter
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781580235914

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Midrash & Medicine by William Cutter Pdf

Midrash provides a revolutionary guide through the most difficult passages of our life stories. This groundbreaking volume examines the spiritual shortfalls of our current healing environment and explores how midrash can help you see beyond the physical aspects of healing to tune in to your spiritual source. Pushing the boundaries of Jewish knowledge, physicians, rabbis, social workers, psychologists and philosophers investigate the role of midrashic thinking in addressing seemingly intractable social and personal issues. Topics discussed include: How metaphors and parables can aid healing How Jewish tradition can inform and enrich health, hospice and nursing-home care New ways of reading Jewish texts in the discussion of medical ethics The role of community in addressing aging, loss and suffering.

Author : Jacob Neusner,Alan Avery-Peck
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004531345

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Encyclopaedia of Midrash by Jacob Neusner,Alan Avery-Peck Pdf

The Encyclopedia of Midrash provides a systematic account of biblical interpretation in Judaism. While emphasizing the Rabbinic literature, it also covers interpretation of Scripture in a number of distinct canons, ranging from the Targumic literature and Dead Sea Scrolls to the New Testament and Church Fathers. The Encyclopedia of Midrash provides readers with a depth and breadth of treatment of Midrash unavailable in any other single source. Through the writings of top scholars in each of their fields, it sets out the current state of the question for each of the many topics discussed in its pages. The print edition is available as a set of two volumes (9789004141667).

Author : Edwin C. Goldberg
Publisher : Jason Aronson
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015041104798

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Midrash for Beginners by Edwin C. Goldberg Pdf

The author presents English readers with an easily accessible entrance into the world of Midrash, the classical rabbinic literature containing the commentaries of Jewish Tradition's greatest sages and rabbis.

Author : Jay M. Harris
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0791421449

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How Do We Know This? by Jay M. Harris Pdf

This book is a study of rabbinic legal interpretation (midrash) in Judaism’s 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 : Benjamin J. Segal
Publisher : U'd Syn Conservative Judaism
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Haggadot
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Midrash, the Search for a Contemporary Past by Benjamin J. Segal Pdf

Author : Reuven Hammer
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0809135035

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The Classic Midrash by Reuven Hammer Pdf

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 : Lieve M. Teugels
Publisher : Peeters Publishers
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9042914262

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Bible and Midrash by Lieve M. Teugels Pdf

This two-part book traces the literary and historic study of the story of the 'Wooing of Rebekah' in the Hebrew Bible and its creative interpretations in Rabbinic Midrash. Part 1 treats such issues as the characterization of the narrative agents in the biblical story, the use of repetition as a narrative structuring device, and the question as to the roles of Rebekah and Isaac in this story as well as in the broader Isaac-Rebekah narratives. Part 2 follows several rabbinic interpretations of this story, dealing with, among other topics, the development of the motif of Rebekah's virginity in rabbinic aggadah and halakha as well as the reception of this theme in modern feminist studies of midrash. While treating these topics, this is at the same time a methodological inquiry into the dynamics of midrashic interpretation, treating rabbinic techniques such as 'gap-filling' and 'linkage', and its differences from modern biblical exegesis.

Author : Michael Fishbane,Joanna Weinberg
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789624793

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Midrash Unbound by Michael Fishbane,Joanna Weinberg Pdf

An impressive array of the leading names in the field have together produced a volume that seeks to open a new period in the study of Midrash and its creative role in the formation of culture. With a comprehensive introduction that situates Midrash in its historical and rhetorical setting and provides the context for a detailed consideration of different genres and applications, it should interest all scholars of Jewish studies as well as a wider readership interested in how a classical genre can inspire new creativity.

Author : Wendy I. Zierler
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781438466163

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Movies and Midrash by Wendy I. Zierler Pdf

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 : Katie J. Woolstenhulme
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567695765

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The Matriarchs in Genesis Rabbah by Katie J. Woolstenhulme Pdf

Katie J. Woolstenhulme considers the pertinent questions: Who were 'the matriarchs', and what did the rabbis think about them? Whilst scholarship on the role of women in the Bible and Rabbinic Judaism has increased, the authoritative group of women known as 'the matriarchs' has been neglected. This volume consequently focuses on the role and status of the biblical matriarchs in Genesis Rabbah, the fifth century CE rabbinic commentary on Genesis. Woolstenhulme begins by discussing the nature of midrash and introducing Genesis Rabbah; before exploring the term 'the matriarchs' and its development through early exegetical literature, culminating in the emergence of two definitions of the term in Genesis Rabbah – 'the matriarchs' as the legitimate wives of Israel's patriarchs, and 'the matriarchs' as a reference to Jacob's four wives, who bore Israel's tribal ancestors. She then moves to discuss 'the matriarchal cycle' in Genesis Rabbah with its three stages of barrenness; motherhood; and succession. Finally, Woolstenhulme considers Genesis Rabbah's portrayal of the matriarchs as representatives of the female sex, exploring positive and negative rabbinic attitudes towards women with a focus on piety, prayer, praise, beauty and sexuality, and the matriarchs' exemplification of stereotypical, negative female traits. This volume concludes that for the ancient rabbis, the matriarchs were the historical mothers of Israel, bearing covenant sons, but also the present mothers of Israel, continuing to influence Jewish identity.

Author : Monica Osborne
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781498564915

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The Midrashic Impulse and the Contemporary Literary Response to Trauma by Monica Osborne Pdf

This book explores contemporary writers’ use of nonrepresentational techniques, similar to those of ancient rabbis who composed classical Midrash, as they grapple with the violence of our era. With particular attention paid to Holocaust literature, the book identifies an important trend in literature about collective trauma.

Author : Steven D. Fraade
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438403144

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From Tradition to Commentary by Steven D. Fraade Pdf

This book examines Torah and its interpretation both as a recurring theme in the early rabbinic commentary and as the very practice of the commentary. It studies the phenomenon of ancient rabbinic scriptural commentary in relation to the perspectives of literary and historical criticisms and their complex intersection. The author discusses extensively the nature of ancient commentary, comparing and contrasting it with the antecedents in the pesharim of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the allegorical commentaries of Philo of Alexandria. He develops a model for a dynamic understanding of the literary structure and sociohistorical function of early rabbinic commentary, and then applies this model to the Sifre — to the oldest extant running commentary to Deuteronomy and one of the oldest rabbinic collections of exegesis. Fraade examines the commentary's representation of revelation and its reception at Mt. Sinai, with particular attention to its fractured refiguration and interrelation of Scripture, tradition, and history. He discusses the commentary's discursive empowering of the class of sages in their collective self-understanding as Israel's authorized teachers, leaders, legislators, and judges. The author also probes the tension between Torah and nature as witnesses to Israel's covenant with God.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Jewish Publication Society
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0827610211

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Searching for Meaning in Midrash by Anonim Pdf

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?"