Book Description
Essays discuss Jewish critical interpretations of the Bible and the influence of these writings on modern literature
Author : Geoffrey H. Hartman
Publisher : New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 23,75 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Midrash
ISBN : 9780300034530
Essays discuss Jewish critical interpretations of the Bible and the influence of these writings on modern literature
Author : David Stern
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 17,1 MB
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674654488
David Stern shows how the parable or mashal--the most distinctive type of narrative in midrash--was composed, how its symbolism works, and how it serves to convey the ideological convictions of the rabbis. He describes its relation to similar tales in other literatures, including the parables of Jesus in the New Testament and kabbalistic parables. Through its innovative approach to midrash, this study reaches beyond its particular subject, and will appeal to all readers interested in narrative and religion.
Author : David Stern
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 25,7 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810115743
In Midrash and Theory, David Stern presents an approach to midrashic literature through the prism of contemporary theory. As midrash--the literature of classical Jewish Scriptural interpretation--has become the focus of new interest in contemporary literary circles, it has been invoked as a precursor of post-structuralist theory and criticism. At the same time, the midrashic imagination has undergone a revival in the larger Jewish community and shown itself capable of exercising a powerful influence and hold on a new type of contemporary Jewish writing. Stern examines this resurgence of fascination with ancient Jewish interpretation from the persepctive of the cultural relevance of midrash and its connection to its original historical and literary contexts.
Author : Barbara Diamond Goldin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 44,4 MB
Release : 2006-09-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0742579670
This collection gives the reader a taste of the thousands of stories one can find in the treasure house of rabbinic literature. Some of these stories are humorous, some mysteriuos, some tense with drama or adventure, some filled with the joy of a miracle and the beauty of faith. All of these stories come from either the Talmud or the Midrash. This collection shows that these rabbinical stories are not old and outdated, but alive and timeless, for future generations to continue to enjoy.
Author : David C. Jacobson
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 10,96 MB
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1438407726
This book explores a central phenomenon in the development of modern Jewish literature: the retelling of tradtional Jewish narratives by twentieth-century writers. It shows how and toward what ends Biblical stories, legends, and Hasidic tales have been used in shaping modern Hebrew literature. The author's impressive knowledge and careful analysis of both early and modern Hebrew texts reveal the main literary features of the genre, while making an important contribution to current discussions of the relationship between midrash and literature, the relationship between myth (and other traditional narratives) and modern literature, and the concept of intertextuality. The book also provides many fresh insights on the various issues of modern Jewish existence addressed in these works. Among these are: the revival of the Jewish tradition by reinterpreting it in light of new values, the preservation of Jewish identity entering into Western culture, the changing roles of men and women in Jewish culture, challenges to traditional Jewish views of sexuality, attempts to physically destroy the Jewish people, moral and political issues raised by the establishment of the State of Israel, and the conflict between Jews and Arabs.
Author : Simi Peters
Publisher :
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,8 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Education
ISBN :
Presenting a systematic approach to the study of midrash, each of the readings presented in this book attempts to reconstruct the reasoning behind midrashic commentary on biblical narrative. The goal of the book is to convey a sensitivity to the language and meanings of the Tanakh, and to develop a reverent appreciation for the language and teachings of the Jewish sages.
Author : Barbara Diamond Goldin
Publisher : Jason Aronson Incorporated
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 37,34 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780876688373
Presents stories of heroic individuals from the Talmud and Midrash.
Author : Jacob Neusner
Publisher : Jason Aronson
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 30,25 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780876688144
An introduction to the seven Midrash compilations with a lucid account of their main points. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author : Sandy Eisenberg Sasso
Publisher : Paraclete Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 43,6 MB
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1612614442
The ancient rabbis believed that the Torah was divinely revealed and therefore contained eternal truths and multitudinous hidden meanings. Not a single word was considered haphazard or inconsequential. This understanding of how Scripture mystically relates to all of life is the fertile ground from which the Midrash emerged. Here Rabbi Sandy Eisenberg Sasso explores how Midrash originated and how it is still practiced today, and offers new translations and interpretations of twenty essential, classic midrashic texts. You will never read the Bible the same way again!
Author : Galit Hasan-Rokem
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 33,93 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0804732272
Web of Life weaves its suggestive interpretation of Jewish culture in the Palestine of late antiquity on the warp of a singular, breathtakingly tragic, and sublime rabbinic text, Lamentations Rabbah. The textual analyses that form the core of the book are informed by a range of theoretical paradigms rarely brought to bear on rabbinic literature: structural analysis of mythologies and folktales, performative approaches to textual production, feminist theory, psychoanalytical analysis of culture, cultural criticism, and folk narrative genre analysis. The concept of context as the hermeneutic basis for literary interpretation reactivates the written text and subverts the hierarchical structures with which it has been traditionally identified. This book reinterprets rabbinic culture as an arena of multiple dialogues that traverse traditional concepts of identity regarding gender, nation, religion, and territory. The author's approach is permeated by the idea that scholarly writing about ancient texts is invigorated by an existential hermeneutic rooted in the universality of human experience. She thus resorts to personal experience as an idiom of communication between author and reader and between human beings of our time and of the past. This research acknowledges the overlap of poetic and analytical language as well as the language of analysis and everyday life. In eliciting folk narrative discourses inside the rabbinic text, the book challenges traditional views about the social basis that engendered these texts. It suggests the subversive potential of the constitutive texts of Jewish culture from late antiquity to the present by pointing out the inherent multi-vocality of the text, adding to the conventionally acknowledged synagogue and academy the home, the marketplace, and other private and public socializing institutions.