Author: Ronit Nikolsky
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004469192
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 381
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This book explores the Tanhuma-Yelammedenu Literature, an important Jewish homiletic genre prevailing in late antiquity and early Byzantine Palestine. Originating in the culture of the study house, and addressing the synagogue audience, this literature allows us to follow the reception of the rabbinic culture in the wider Jewish society.
Author: Marc Bregman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Midrash Tanḥuma
Languages : iw
Pages : 285
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Author: Dov Weiss
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 081224835X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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Judaism is often described as a religion that tolerates, even celebrates arguments with God. In Pious Irreverence, Dov Weiss has written the first scholarly study of the premodern roots of this distinctively Jewish theology of protest, examining its origins and development in the rabbinic age (70 CE-800 CE).
Author: Marc Bregman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783161461422
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 500
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Author: Matthew S. Goldstone
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004376550
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 293
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In The Dangerous Duty of Rebuke Matthew Goldstone explores the ways religious leaders in early Jewish and Christian communities conceived of the obligation to rebuke based upon the biblical verse: “Rebuke your fellow but do not incur sin” (Leviticus 19:17).
Author: Marcel Poorthuis
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004417524
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 356
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In Parables in Changing Contexts, new venues in the comparative study of parables are addressed by scholars of Judaism, New Testament, Buddhism and Islam. Essays cover parables in the synoptic Gospels, Rabbinic midrash, and parabolic tales and fables in the Babylonian Talmud.
Author: J.T.A.G.M. van Ruiten
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004334769
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 210
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Issues such as the immortality of the soul, the debate about matter versus life, and whether one was capable of knowing the outside world were all being extensively discussed in many religions and cultures in both East and West. The present volume addresses the concept of an immortal soul in a mortal body, and focuses on early Judaism and Christianity, where this issue is often related to the initial chapters of the book of Genesis. The papers are devoted to the interpretation of Gen 2:7 in relation to the broader issue of dualistic anthropology. They show that the dualism was questioned in different ways within the context of early Judaism and Christianity.
Author: Lieve Teugels
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004421416
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 342
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Aggadat Bereshit is a homiletic Midrash on the Book of Genesis written in Hebrew, about the 10th century CE. It has a unique threefold structure, dividing the chapters or homilies according to the three parts of Tenakh: Torah (Genesis), Prophets and Writings. It contains interesting material, some unparalleled in rabbinic literature, such as an anti-Christian interpretation of Genesis 22. Besides being the first translation, this volume presents some variants from manuscripts unknown by its last editor (S. Buber, Krakow 1903). This English translation will be welcomed in the world of Jewish and Biblical Studies, academics as well as lay-persons with lesser knowledge of rabbinic Hebrew. The extensive introduction gives an up-to-date overview of the questions as to text, contents, structure, dating and provenance of this hitherto neglected Midrash.
Author: Samuel A. Berman
Publisher: KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
ISBN: 9780881254006
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 718
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Author: Rivka Ulmer
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110223929
Category : Egypt
Languages : en
Pages : 433
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Rabbinic midrash of late antiquity and the early medieval period visualized Egypt and presented Egyptian religious concepts and icons. Midrash is analyzed in a cross-cultural perspective utilizing insights from the discipline of Egyptology. Topics: the Greco-Roman Nile god, Isis, Serapis and other gods, festivals, mummy portraits, funeral customs, the Egyptian language, Pharaohs, Cleopatra, Alexandria, the divine eye. The hermeneutical role of Egyptian cultural icons in midrash is explored.
