Re-presenting texts : Jewish and black biblical interpretation / edited by W. David Nelson, Rivka Ulmer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Society of Biblical Literature. Consultation on Midrash (5th : 2011)

Contributor:

Nelson, W. David.

Ulmer, Rivka

Class of 1924 Book Fund.

Series:

Judaism in context ; v. 16.

Judaism in context ; v. 16

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. Old Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish--Congresses.

Bible.

Bible. Old Testament--Black interpretations--Congresses.

Bible. Old Testament--Comparative studies--Congresses.

Bible. Old Testament.

Black interpretations of sacred works.

Genre:

Comparative studies.

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

x, 138 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press, [2013]

Contents:

Eurocentrism: the tie that binds black Christian and white Jewish biblical scholarship / W. David Nelson

The Noahic curse in Rabbinic literature: racialized hermeneutics or ethnocentric exegesis / Jamal-Dominique Hopkins

Translating rabbinic texts on the curse of Ham: what we learn from Charles Copher and his critics / Rebecca Alpert

It does matter if you're black or white, too-black or too white, but Mestizo is just right / Wil Gafney

Response to W. David Nelson, Wil Gafney, Jamal-Dominique Hopkins, and Rebecca Alpert

Stacy Davis

Rejoinder: Black and Jewish hermeneutics / Rivka Ulmer

Preempting the redemption: the bones of the Ephraimites and the Messianic pretender in Midrash / Rachel Adelman

The poetry of creation: Zevadiah and Amittai's Yotzerot le-Hatan ("Groom's Yotzers") / Laura Lieber.

Notes:

These papers are from the 2010 (Atlanta, GA) SBL annual meeting and the 2011 (San Francisco, CA) SBL annual meeting.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1924 Book Fund.

OCLC:

853618736