Discussing Cultural Influences

Text, Context, and Non-Text in Rabbinic Judaism

Häftad, Engelska, 2007

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This book contextualizes Rabbinic Judaism by emphasizing that the framers of Rabbinic thought were in conversation with cultures different from their own as much as with their own tradition. In a series of seven essays, presented here for the first time, the authors challenge the reader's assumptions about Judaism in the Second Temple period, late antiquity, and the early medieval era. Arranged in chronological order according to the period of time they focus on, the essays analyze texts such as the Hebrew Bible, Greco-Roman Egyptian texts, Greek and Latin works, the Dead Sea Scrolls, early and late midrashic texts, the New Testament, the Church fathers' writings, the Jerusalem and the Babylonian Talmuds, and Zoroastrian texts.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2007-01-26
Mått152 x 227 x 19 mm
Vikt399 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieStudies in Judaism
Antal sidor272
FörlagUniversity Press of America
ISBN9780761835165

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Editor Rivka Ulmer holds the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Chair in Jewish Studies and Assistant Professor of Religion at Bucknell University. She received an M.A. in Jewish Studies and English, as well as a Dr.Phil. in Jewish Studies from the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität. She is the author of numerous scholarly works, including A Synoptic Edition of Pesiqta Rabbati Based Upon All Extant Hebrew Manuscripts and the Editio Princeps also from the University Press of America.

Part 1 PrefaceChapter 2 1. Legal Acts and Codification in the Dead Sea ScrollsChapter 3 2. The Term Midrash in Tannaitic LiteratureChapter 4 3. Polemics and Rabbinic LiturgyChapter 5 4. Rabbinizing Jesus, Christianizing the Son of David: The Bavli's Approach to the Secondary Messiah TraditionsChapter 6 5. 'He in His Cloak and She in Her Cloak:' Conflicting Images of Sexuality in Sasanian MesopotamiaChapter 7 6. Rabbi Shimon Bar Yohai: Literary MotifsChapter 8 7. Visions of Egypt in Midrash: The Nile as the Landscape of the OtherPart 9 Index