Discussing cultural influences : text, context, and non-text in Rabbinic Judaism / edited by Rivka Ulmer.

Format:

Book

Series:

Studies in Judaism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rabbinical literature--History and criticism.

Rabbinical literature.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

viii, 248 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, 2007.

Summary:

Discussing Cultural Influences contextualizes Rabbinic Judaism by emphasizing that the framers of Rabbinic thought were in conversation with cultures different from their own as much as with their own tradition. In a series of seven essays, presented here for the first time, the authors challenge the reader's assumptions about Judaism in the Second Temple period, late antiquity, and the early medieval era.

Contents:

Legal texts and codification in the Dead Sea Scrolls / Lawrence Schiffman

The term Midrash in Tannaitic literature / Mayer Gruber

Polemics and Rabbinic liturgy / Reuven Kimelman

Rabbinizing Jesus, Christianizing the Son of David: the Bavli's approach to the secondary Messiah traditions / Holger Zellentin

'He in his cloak and she in her cloak': conflicting images of sexuality in Sasanian Mesopotamia / Yaakov Elman

Rabbi Shimon Bar Yohai: literary motifs / Herbert Basser

Visions of Egypt in Midrash: the Nile as the landscape of the other / Rivka Ulmer.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0761835164

9780761835165

OCLC:

85843728