Midrash and multiplicity : Pirke de-Rabbi Eliezer and the renewal of rabbinic interpretive culture /
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. Midrash and Multiplicity addresses the problems raised by this equivocal work, and...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin ; New York :
Walter de Gruyter,
©2009.
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| Series: | Studia Judaica (Walter de Gruyter & Co.) ;
Bd. 48. |
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Table of Contents:
- PRE and the history of rabbinic literature
- Literary arrangement in PRE
- Narrative and the phenomenon of lists
- The context of thematic discourse
- Analogy and bound themes in PRE
- PRE and pseudepigraphy
- R. Eliezer as author, pseudonym or archetype
- Transmission and tradents in PRE
- Appendix: Geonic Hebrew and pseudepigraphy
- PRE and the language of scripture
- Exegetical terminology in PRE
- PRE's exegetical expansions
- Appendix: Legal authority and scriptural innovation in PRE
- PRE and the rabbinic tradition
- Technical vocabulary in PRE
- Quotation and resonance
- Mythic clusters
- Appendix: PRE, Ishmael and Islam
- Conclusion.