Midrash unbound

Titel: Midrash unbound : transformations and innovations / edited by Michael Fishbane ...
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Veröffentlicht: Oxford : Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2013
Umfang: VI, 472 Seiten ; 24 cm
Format: Buch
Sprache: Englisch
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ISBN: 9781904113713 ; 1904113710
  • List of Contributors
  • p. vii
  • Note on Transliteration
  • p. viii
  • Introduction
  • p. 1
  • Part I
  • Origins and Sub Surface Traditions
  • 1
  • Midrash and the Meaning of Scripture
  • p. 13
  • 2
  • The Hand upon the Lord's Throne: Targumic and Midrashic Perceptions of Exodus 17: 14-16
  • p. 25
  • 3
  • Unwashed Hands: A Midrashic Controversy in the Gospel of Matthew
  • p. 41
  • 4
  • 'Tradunt Hebraei': The Problem of the Function and Reception of Jewish Midrash in Jerome
  • p. 57
  • 5
  • Midrash in Syriac
  • p. 83
  • Part II
  • Later Midrashic Forms
  • 6
  • Piyut and Midrash: Between Poetic Invention and Rabbinic Convention
  • p. 99
  • 7
  • The Mourners for Zion and the Suffering Messiah: Pesikta rabati 34-Structure, Theology, and Context
  • p. 137
  • 8
  • The Toledot yeshu as Midrash
  • p. 159
  • 9
  • Storytelling as Midrashic Discourse in the Middle Ages
  • p. 169
  • 10
  • Performative Midrash in the Memory of Ashkenazi Martyrs
  • p. 197
  • Part III
  • Medieval Transformations
  • 11
  • Midrash in a Lexical Key: Nathan ben Yehiel's Arukh
  • p. 213
  • 12
  • Rashi's Choice: The Pentateuch Commentary as Rewritten Midrash
  • p. 233
  • 13
  • The Pendulum of Exegetical Methodology: From Peshat to Derash and Back
  • p. 249
  • 14
  • Midrashic Texts and Methods in Tosafist Torah Commentaries
  • p. 267
  • 15
  • Zoharic Literature and Midrashic Temporality
  • p. 321
  • Part IV
  • Early Modern and Modern Traditions
  • 16
  • The Ingathering of Midrash Rabbah: A Moment of Creativity and Innovation
  • p. 347
  • 17
  • Midrash in Medieval and Early Modern Sermons
  • p. 371
  • 18
  • Rabbi Judah Loew of Prague and his Attitude to the Aggadah
  • p. 389
  • 19
  • The Destruction of the Temple: A Yiddish Booklet for the Ninth of Av
  • p. 407
  • 20
  • Midrash in Habad Hasidism
  • p. 429
  • Index
  • p. 457