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Midrash and the Exegetical Mind

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Contained in this volume are the Proceedings of the Midrash session of the SBL's annual conferences in 2008 and 2009. This volume contains eight essays dealing with various aspects of rabbinic interpretation.

Title Midrash and the Exegetical Mind : Proceedings of the 2008 and 2009 SBL Midrash Sessions.
Publisher Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press
Creation Date [2010]
Notes In English.
Content Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Rhapsody in Blue: The Origin of God's Footstool in the Aramaic Targumim and Midrashic Tradition / Adelman, Rachel -- 2. Biblical Text in Rabbinic Context: The Book of Chronicles in the Mishnah, Talmud and Midrash / Kalimi, Isaac -- 3. Lessons for Historiographers: Managing the Dynamics of Indeterminacy in Song of Songs Rabbah / Lasair, Simon -- 4. The Rabbinic Knife: Why and How the Rabbis castrated Noah / Martin, Erica L. -- 5. The Oral Orthography of Mishnaic and Toseftan Interpolation / Nelson, W. David -- 6. Derashah as Performative Exegesis in Tosefta and Mishnah / Polen, Nehemia -- 7. Sarah Saw a Hunter: The Venatic Motif in genesis rabbah 53:11 / Rainbow, Jesse -- 8. Hyper-Sexualization in the bavli: An Initial Survey / Rosen-Zvi, Ishay
Series Judaism in Context
Extent 1 online resource (v, 205 pages).
Language English
Copyright Date ©2010
National Library system number 997011505186305171
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