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The Midrashic imagination : Jewish exegesis, thought, and history / edited by Michael Fishbane.

Contributor(s): Fishbane, Michael A
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Albany : State University of New York Press, [1993]Copyright date: ©1993Description: 296 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 079141521X; 0791415228 (pbk.)Subject(s): Midrash -- History and criticism | Bible. Old Testament -- History -- Criticism, interpretation, etc., JewishDDC classification: 296.1/406 LOC classification: BM514 | .M485 1993Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Midrash and the "midrashic condition" : preliminary considerations / Ithamar Gruenwald -- From Midrash to Mishnah : theological repercussions and further clarifications of "Chat'eu Yisrael" / David Weiss Halivni -- Midrashic versus other forms of Jewish hermeneutics : some comparative reflections / Moshe Idel -- "The Holy One sits and roars" : mythopoesis and the midrashic imagination / Michael Fishbane -- The Rabbinic parable and the narrative of interpretation / David Stern -- The nature and distribution of medieval compilatory commentaries in the light of Rabbi Joseph Kara's commentary on the Book of Job / Sara Japhet -- Maimonides on the covenant of circumcision and the unity of God / Josef Stern -- Beautiful maiden without eyes : Peshat and Sod in Zoharic hermeneutics / Elliot R. Wolfson -- Proverbs, figures, and riddles : the Dialogues of love as a Hebrew humanist composition / Arthur M. Lesley.
(cont.) Can medieval storytelling help understanding Midrash? The story of Paltiel : a preliminary study on history and Midrash / Robert Bonfil -- History, story and collective memory : narrativity in early Ashkenazic culture / Ivan G. Marcus -- Sefer Yosippon : history and Midrash / Steven Bowman.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Midrash and the "midrashic condition" : preliminary considerations / Ithamar Gruenwald -- From Midrash to Mishnah : theological repercussions and further clarifications of "Chat'eu Yisrael" / David Weiss Halivni -- Midrashic versus other forms of Jewish hermeneutics : some comparative reflections / Moshe Idel -- "The Holy One sits and roars" : mythopoesis and the midrashic imagination / Michael Fishbane -- The Rabbinic parable and the narrative of interpretation / David Stern -- The nature and distribution of medieval compilatory commentaries in the light of Rabbi Joseph Kara's commentary on the Book of Job / Sara Japhet -- Maimonides on the covenant of circumcision and the unity of God / Josef Stern -- Beautiful maiden without eyes : Peshat and Sod in Zoharic hermeneutics / Elliot R. Wolfson -- Proverbs, figures, and riddles : the Dialogues of love as a Hebrew humanist composition / Arthur M. Lesley.

(cont.) Can medieval storytelling help understanding Midrash? The story of Paltiel : a preliminary study on history and Midrash / Robert Bonfil -- History, story and collective memory : narrativity in early Ashkenazic culture / Ivan G. Marcus -- Sefer Yosippon : history and Midrash / Steven Bowman.

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