Re-Presenting Texts
Jewish and Black Biblical Interpretation
Published on 24. July 2013
148 pages
978-1-4632-3551-2 (ISBN)
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This is the fifth issue of Proceedings of the Midrash Section at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature published in this series, and contains six papers on Jewish and Black biblical hermeneutics with regard to Rabbinic Midrash.
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English
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Piscataway, NJ
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Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
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978-1-4632-3551-2 (9781463235512)
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Content
- Copyright Page (page 4)
- Table of Contents (page 5)
- Introduction (page 7)
- 1 Eurocentrism: The Tie That Binds Black Christian and White Jewish Biblical Scholarship (W. David Nelson) (page 11)
- Race, Rabbinics and the Black Presence in the Old Testament (page 12)
- Eurocentrism: The Tie that Binds Black Christian and White Jewish Scholarship (page 17)
- Concluding Considerations (page 23)
- 2 The Noahic Curse in Rabbinic Literature: Racialized Hermeneutics or Ethnocentric Exegesis (Jamal-Dominique Hopkins) (page 25)
- Ideological Variance within Qumranic Literature (page 33)
- MMT B 13.17 and 64.72"Notions of Purification (page 34)
- 3 Translating Rabbinic Texts on the Curse of Ham: What We Learn from Charles Copher and his Critics (Rebecca Alpert) (page 39)
- Copher's Role (page 42)
- Lost in Translation (page 44)
- A Question of Aesthetics? (page 46)
- The Issue is Sexuality (page 47)
- Conclusions (page 49)
- Bibliography (page 50)
- 4 It Does Matter if You're Black Or White, Too-black or Too-white, but Mestizo is Just Right (Wil Gafney) (page 53)
- 5 Response to W. David Nelson, Wil Gafney, Jamal-Dominique Hopkins, and Rebecca Alpert (Stacy Davis) (page 63)
- Bibliography (page 72)
- 6 Rejoinder: Black and Jewish Hermeneutics (Rivka Ulmer) (page 75)
- 7 Preempting the Redemption: The Bones of the Ephraimites and the Messianic Pretender in Midrash Rachel Adelman) (page 87)
- The Road Less Traveled (page 92)
- Mekhilta Beshalla? 1 (Ed. Horovitz-rabin 75F.) (page 93)
- In the Valley of Duma (page 96)
- b. Sanhedrin 92b (page 96)
- Miscalculating the End (page 100)
- Pirqe de-Rabbi Eliezer Chapter 48 (page 102)
- ?You Can't Hurry LoveƒZ (page 105)
- Canticles Rabbah 2:7 (page 106)
- Who is the Messianic Pretender? (page 108)
- Conclusion (page 110)
- Appendix A: Chart Summarizing the Sources on the Legend of the Bones of the Ephraimites (page 112)
- 8 The Poetry of Creation: Zevadiah and Amittai's Yotzerot Le-Hatan (?Groom's YotzersZ) (Laura Lieber) (page 113)
- Poetic Background; Midrashic Sources (page 115)
- The Piyyutim (page 120)
- Zevadiah's Yotzer Le-Hatan (page 122)
- Amittai's Yotzer Le-Hatan (page 128)
- Analysis and Conclusion (page 133)
- Appendix A: Zevadiah's Yotzer Le-Hatan (page 135)
- Appendix B: Amittai's Yotzer-le-Hatan (page 144)
- Table of Contents (page 5)
- Introduction (page 7)
- 1 Eurocentrism: The Tie That Binds Black Christian and White Jewish Biblical Scholarship (W. David Nelson) (page 11)
- Race, Rabbinics and the Black Presence in the Old Testament (page 12)
- Eurocentrism: The Tie that Binds Black Christian and White Jewish Scholarship (page 17)
- Concluding Considerations (page 23)
- 2 The Noahic Curse in Rabbinic Literature: Racialized Hermeneutics or Ethnocentric Exegesis (Jamal-Dominique Hopkins) (page 25)
- Ideological Variance within Qumranic Literature (page 33)
- MMT B 13.17 and 64.72"Notions of Purification (page 34)
- 3 Translating Rabbinic Texts on the Curse of Ham: What We Learn from Charles Copher and his Critics (Rebecca Alpert) (page 39)
- Copher's Role (page 42)
- Lost in Translation (page 44)
- A Question of Aesthetics? (page 46)
- The Issue is Sexuality (page 47)
- Conclusions (page 49)
- Bibliography (page 50)
- 4 It Does Matter if You're Black Or White, Too-black or Too-white, but Mestizo is Just Right (Wil Gafney) (page 53)
- 5 Response to W. David Nelson, Wil Gafney, Jamal-Dominique Hopkins, and Rebecca Alpert (Stacy Davis) (page 63)
- Bibliography (page 72)
- 6 Rejoinder: Black and Jewish Hermeneutics (Rivka Ulmer) (page 75)
- 7 Preempting the Redemption: The Bones of the Ephraimites and the Messianic Pretender in Midrash Rachel Adelman) (page 87)
- The Road Less Traveled (page 92)
- Mekhilta Beshalla? 1 (Ed. Horovitz-rabin 75F.) (page 93)
- In the Valley of Duma (page 96)
- b. Sanhedrin 92b (page 96)
- Miscalculating the End (page 100)
- Pirqe de-Rabbi Eliezer Chapter 48 (page 102)
- ?You Can't Hurry LoveƒZ (page 105)
- Canticles Rabbah 2:7 (page 106)
- Who is the Messianic Pretender? (page 108)
- Conclusion (page 110)
- Appendix A: Chart Summarizing the Sources on the Legend of the Bones of the Ephraimites (page 112)
- 8 The Poetry of Creation: Zevadiah and Amittai's Yotzerot Le-Hatan (?Groom's YotzersZ) (Laura Lieber) (page 113)
- Poetic Background; Midrashic Sources (page 115)
- The Piyyutim (page 120)
- Zevadiah's Yotzer Le-Hatan (page 122)
- Amittai's Yotzer Le-Hatan (page 128)
- Analysis and Conclusion (page 133)
- Appendix A: Zevadiah's Yotzer Le-Hatan (page 135)
- Appendix B: Amittai's Yotzer-le-Hatan (page 144)
