Comparative Midrash
Author | : Jacob Neusner |
Publisher | : University of South Florida |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Jacob Neusner |
Publisher | : University of South Florida |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jacob Neusner |
Publisher | : Studies in Judaism |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
The documentary hypothesis of the Rabbinic canon of late antiquity maintains that complete documents form the smallest whole building blocks of the Rabbinic system. These two volumes undertake a concrete exercise in the realization of the documentary hypothesis. It compares the rhetorical/formal and exegetical traits of two entire, kindred documents. Then, through a side by side chart, it compares each component of the two documents' treatment of the same extended segment of Scripture, Numbers 19. Whole documents are to be described and analyzed through a process of systematic description, comparison, and contrast. What makes the study fresh is that the author compares the two documents of the rabbinic canon that are most alike--the two Sifr s on Numbers. What makes it surprising is the result: they have nothing in common. Each is autonomous, and except for the scriptural foundation systematically shared by both, neither intersects in an appreciable measure with the other. Volume One (Chapters One and Two) deals with forms. In Chapter One, the author surveys the forms of Sifr to Numbers and identifies and classifies the formal patterns that govern throughout. Then, with the formal and propositional program of Sifr to Numbers as a base, in Chapter Two he does the same with Sifr Zutta to Numbers. Volume Two (Chapters Three through Five) deals with exegesis and systematic comparison of whole segments of documents. Chapters Three and Four describe and compare the exegetical patterns of the base-documents, with special reference to the utilization of the verses of Scripture as foci of coherent discourse. In Chapter Five, the author compares the treatment of Huqqat, that is, a single passage of Scripture read by the two commentaries respectively.
Author | : Jacob Neusner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
The documentary hypothesis of the Rabbinic canon of late antiquity maintains that complete documents form the smallest whole building blocks of the Rabbinic system. These two volumes compare the rhetorical/formal and exegetical traits of two entire, kindred documents. What makes it surprising is the result: they have nothing in common.
Author | : Jacob Neusner |
Publisher | : Jason Aronson, Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1994-10-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1461631580 |
The Midrash: An Introduction sets forth the way in which Judaism reads the Hebrew Bible. In this masterful presentation, the reader is introduced to the classics of Jewish Bible interpretation, with special attention to the way in which the ribbis of Talmudic times read the Pentateuch, the Book of Ruth, and Song of Songs. The seven Midrash compilations are introduced with a lucid account of their main points, accompanied by selections that give the reader a direct encounter, in English, with the Bible as Judaism understands it. The word midrash, based on the Hebrew root DaRaSH (“search”), means “interpretation” or “exegesis.” Midrash also more formally refers to the compilations of such interpretations of Scripture. As Dr. Jacob Neusner explains, these compilations “reached closure and conclusion in the formative stage of Judaism, that is, the first seven centuries of the Common Era, the time in which the Mishnah (ca. 200), Talmud of the Land of Israel (ca. 400), and Talmud of Babylonia (ca. 600) were written.” Midrash is not so much about Scripture as it is a subordinate part of Scripture: “They did not write about Scripture,” Dr. Neusner says. “They wrote with Scripture … much as painters paint with a palette of colors.” The Midrash: An Introduction is the second volume in Dr. Jacob Neusner’s series of introductory volumes on classical rabbinic literature. As with the first volume – The Mishnah: An Introduction – this book offers the layperson a concise description of the religious literature and, drawing on Dr. Neusner’s own translations of the texts, walks readers through the selections, providing them with firsthand experience with the document itself. As Dr. Neusner says in his preface to The Midrash: An Introduction, “In these pages I mean to make it possible for readers to know one such compilation from the other and so to begin studying their own.”
Author | : Bruce D. Chilton |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 956 |
Release | : 2021-08-09 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9004459871 |
This Comparative Handbook surveys the Judaic environment of the Gospels of Matthew and Luke. Analogies are traced with the Pseudepigrapha (together with Philo and Josephus), discoveries related to Qumran, and Rabbinic Literature (inclusive of the Targumim).
Author | : Bruce D. Chilton |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 608 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9004179739 |
This comparative handbook is intended to provide scholars of the New Testament with detailed, systematic and accurate resources concerning the Judaic context of the gospel of Mark. It aims to serve as a powerful tool to assist the reader - and commentator - in understanding and commenting on the gospel of Mark. Introductions are provided to help with issues of dating and the development of the literatures concerned. Possible interpretations are also presented, where suitable.
Author | : Carol Bakhos |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 2022-01-04 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9047417739 |
This important collection of essays by leading scholars of rabbinics reflects the current methodological approaches to the study of midrash. The volume situates midrash within the broader contexts of hermeneutics, rabbinics and postmodern studies, and thus presents a comprehensive view of the kinds of issues scholars in the field are engaging.
Author | : Jacob Neusner |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 495 |
Release | : 2022-11-07 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9004531351 |
The Encyclopedia of Midrash provides a systematic account of biblical interpretation in Judaism. While emphasizing the Rabbinic literature, it also covers interpretation of Scripture in a number of distinct canons, ranging from the Targumic literature and Dead Sea Scrolls to the New Testament and Church Fathers. The Encyclopedia of Midrash provides readers with a depth and breadth of treatment of Midrash unavailable in any other single source. Through the writings of top scholars in each of their fields, it sets out the current state of the question for each of the many topics discussed in its pages. The print edition is available as a set of two volumes (9789004141667).
Author | : David Stern |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674654488 |
David Stern shows how the parable or mashal--the most distinctive type of narrative in midrash--was composed, how its symbolism works, and how it serves to convey the ideological convictions of the rabbis. He describes its relation to similar tales in other literatures, including the parables of Jesus in the New Testament and kabbalistic parables. Through its innovative approach to midrash, this study reaches beyond its particular subject, and will appeal to all readers interested in narrative and religion.
Author | : Jacob Neusner |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 123 |
Release | : 2014-08-05 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1498200834 |
This book introduces Midrash both in general and through many examples of the kinds of Midrash that flourished among ancient Judaism. Neusner, as a preeminent authority on the subject, lays special emphasis upon the exegesis of Scripture produced by the Judaism of the dual Torah, oral and written.