Exodus in the Jewish experience : echoes and reverberations / edited by Pamela Barmash and W. David Nelson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Barmash, Pamela, 1966- editor.

Nelson, W. David, editor.

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. Exodus--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible.

Bible. Exodus.

Jews--Identity.

Jews.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xiv, 256 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2015]

Summary:

"[This book] investigates how the Exodus event has been, and continues to be, a crucial source of identity for both Jews and Judaism. It explores how the Exodus has functioned as the primary hermeneutical model from which Jews have created theological meaning and historical self-understanding"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : The Exodus : central, enduring, and generative / Pamela Barmash

Out of the mists of history : the exaltation of the Exodus in the Bible / Pamela Barmash

Discontinuity and dissonance : Torah, textuality, and early rabbinic hermeneutics of Exodus / W. David Nelson

The past as paradigm : enactments of the Exodus motif in Jewish liturgy / Richard S. Sarason

The impact of the Exodus on Halakhah (Jewish law) / Reuven Hammer

Passover and Thanatos in medieval Jewish consciousness / Kalman P. Bland

Observations on the biblical miniatures in Spanish Haggadot / Vivian B. Mann

From myth to memory : a study of German Jewish translations of Exodus 12-13:16 / Abigail E. Gillman

The desert comes to Zion : a narrative ends its wandering / Arieh Saposnik.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781498502924

149850292X

9781498502931

1498502938

OCLC:

903812668

Publisher Number:

99967530817