
Discussing Cultural Influences
Text, Context, and Non-Text in Rabbinic Judaism
Rivka Ulmer(Editor)
University Press of America
Published on 26. January 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
272 pages
978-0-7618-3516-5 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Lanham, MD
United States
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
440 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7618-3516-5 (9780761835165)
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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-Universitaet. 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.
Content
Part 1 Preface
Chapter 2 1. Legal Acts and Codification in the Dead Sea Scrolls
Chapter 3 2. The Term Midrash in Tannaitic Literature
Chapter 4 3. Polemics and Rabbinic Liturgy
Chapter 5 4. Rabbinizing Jesus, Christianizing the Son of David: The Bavli's Approach to the Secondary Messiah Traditions
Chapter 6 5. 'He in His Cloak and She in Her Cloak:' Conflicting Images of Sexuality in Sasanian Mesopotamia
Chapter 7 6. Rabbi Shimon Bar Yohai: Literary Motifs
Chapter 8 7. Visions of Egypt in Midrash: The Nile as the Landscape of the Other
Part 9 Index
Chapter 2 1. Legal Acts and Codification in the Dead Sea Scrolls
Chapter 3 2. The Term Midrash in Tannaitic Literature
Chapter 4 3. Polemics and Rabbinic Liturgy
Chapter 5 4. Rabbinizing Jesus, Christianizing the Son of David: The Bavli's Approach to the Secondary Messiah Traditions
Chapter 6 5. 'He in His Cloak and She in Her Cloak:' Conflicting Images of Sexuality in Sasanian Mesopotamia
Chapter 7 6. Rabbi Shimon Bar Yohai: Literary Motifs
Chapter 8 7. Visions of Egypt in Midrash: The Nile as the Landscape of the Other
Part 9 Index