Midrash unbound : transformations and innovations /

Midrash is arguably the most ancient genre of Jewish literature, forming a voluminous body of scriptural exegesis over the course of centuries. There is hardly anything in the ancient rabbinic universe that was not taught through this medium. The diversity and development of that creative profusion...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Fishbane, Michael A. (Editor ), Weinberg, Joanna (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2013.
Colección:Littman library of Jewish civilization (Series)
Temas:
Midrash > History and criticism.
Midrash
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • List of Contributors
  • Note on Transliteration
  • List of Contributors
  • Note on Transliteration
  • Introduction
  • PART I ORIGINS AND SUBSURFACE TRADITIONS
  • 1. Midrash and the Meaning of Scripture
  • 2. The Hand upon the Lord's Throne: Targumic and Midrashic Perceptions of Exodus 17: 14-16
  • 3. Unwashed Hands: A Midrashic Controversy in the Gospel of Matthew
  • 4. 'Tradunt Hebraei': The Problem of the Function and Reception of Jewish Midrash in Jerome
  • 5. Midrash in Syriac
  • PART II LATER MIDRASHIC FORMS
  • 6. Piyut and Midrash: Between Poetic Invention and Rabbinic Convention
  • 7. The Mourners for Zion and the Suffering Messiah: Pesikta rabati 34-Structure, Theology, and Context
  • 8. The Toledot yeshu as Midrash
  • 9. Storytelling as Midrashic Discourse in the Middle Ages
  • 10. Performative Midrash in the Memory of Ashkenazi Martyrs
  • PART III MEDIEVAL TRANSFORMATIONS
  • 11. Midrash in a Lexical Key: Nathan ben Yehiel's Arukh
  • 12. Rashi's Choice: The Pentateuch Commentary as Rewritten Midrash
  • 13. The Pendulum of Exegetical Methodology: From Peshat to Derash and Back
  • 14. Midrashic Texts and Methods in Tosafist Torah Commentaries
  • 15. Zoharic Literature and Midrashic Temporality
  • PART IV EARLY MODERN AND MODERN TRADITIONS
  • 16. The Ingathering of Midrash Rabbah: A Moment of Creativity and Innovation
  • 17. Midrash in Medieval and Early Modern Sermons
  • 18. Rabbi Judah Loew of Prague and his Attitude to the Aggadah
  • 19. The Destruction of the Temple: A Yiddish Booklet for the Ninth of Av
  • 20. Midrash in Habad Hasidism
  • Index

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