Midrash and Context
Proceedings of the 2004 and 2005 SBL Consultation on Midrash
Published on 15. April 2019
188 pages
978-1-4632-1357-2 (ISBN)
Description
A collection of seven groundbreaking essays on Rabbinic midrash and related texts by a new generation of erudite scholars combining the themes of the 2004 and 2005 SBL midrash sessions: "Jewish and Christian Hermeneutics" and "Midrash and Cultural Studies," this book is a must have for clergy, students, scholars, and laypersons interested in deepening their understanding of Rabbinic and Patristic biblical interpretation.
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Edition
Digital original
Language
English
Place of publication
Piscataway, NJ
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Edition type
Digital original
Illustrations
5
File size
2,31 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-4632-1357-2 (9781463213572)
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Introduction
- Repeating His Grandfather's Heresy: The Significance of the Charge That Job and Esau Denied the Resurrection of the Dead for Understanding Rabbinic Polemics
- Jerome, The Book Of Exodus, and the World of Late Antiquity
- Being the Temple: Early Jewish and Christian Interpretive Transpositions
- Reading Augustine and/as Midrash: Genesis 6 in Genesis Rabbah and The City of God
- The Letter to the Hebrews: Between Jewish and Christian Hermeneutics
- Orality and Mnemonics in Aggadic Midrash
- Egyptian Magic and the Osiris Myth in Midrash
