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Current trends in the study of Midrash / edited by Carol Bakhos.

Contributor(s): Bakhos, Carol
Material type: TextTextSeries: Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism: v. 106.Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006Description: vi, 336 pages ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9004138706 (hardcover : alk. paper); 9789004138704 (hardcover : alk. paper)Subject(s): MidrashDDC classification: 296.1/406 LOC classification: BM514 | .C87 2006Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
The origins of midrash in the Second Temple period / Paul Mandel -- Resistance to midrash? : midrash and halakhah in the halakhic midrashim / Azzan Yadin -- Rewritten Bible and rabbinic midrash as commentary / Steven D. Fraade -- Reflections on the practice of textual criticism in the study of midrash aggada : the legitimacy, the indispensability and the feasibility of recovering and presenting the (most) original text / Chaim Milikowsky -- Midrash, Christian exegesis, and Hellenistic hermeneutics / Burton L. Visotzky -- The use of midrash for social history / Richard Kalmin -- Method(ological) matters in the study of midrash / Carol Bakhos -- Literary approaches to midrash / Joshua Levinson -- Rabbi Meir, the illuminated and the illuminating : interpreting experience / Galit Hasan-Rokem -- The handmaid, the trickster and the birth of the messiah : a critical appraisal of the feminist valorization of midrash aggada / Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert -- "She extinguished the light of the world" : justifications for women's disabilities in Abot de-Rabbi Nathan B / Judith R. Baskin -- De/re/constructing midrash / Daniel Boyarin.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

The origins of midrash in the Second Temple period / Paul Mandel -- Resistance to midrash? : midrash and halakhah in the halakhic midrashim / Azzan Yadin -- Rewritten Bible and rabbinic midrash as commentary / Steven D. Fraade -- Reflections on the practice of textual criticism in the study of midrash aggada : the legitimacy, the indispensability and the feasibility of recovering and presenting the (most) original text / Chaim Milikowsky -- Midrash, Christian exegesis, and Hellenistic hermeneutics / Burton L. Visotzky -- The use of midrash for social history / Richard Kalmin -- Method(ological) matters in the study of midrash / Carol Bakhos -- Literary approaches to midrash / Joshua Levinson -- Rabbi Meir, the illuminated and the illuminating : interpreting experience / Galit Hasan-Rokem -- The handmaid, the trickster and the birth of the messiah : a critical appraisal of the feminist valorization of midrash aggada / Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert -- "She extinguished the light of the world" : justifications for women's disabilities in Abot de-Rabbi Nathan B / Judith R. Baskin -- De/re/constructing midrash / Daniel Boyarin.

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