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Tales of the neighborhood : Jewish narrative dialogues in late antiquity / Galit Hasan-Rokem.
De Gruyter University of California Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hasan-Rokem, Galit.
- Series:
- Taubman lectures in Jewish studies ; 4.
- The Taubman lectures in Jewish studies ; 4
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jews--Israel--Galilee--Folklore.
- Jews.
- Jewish legends--History and criticism.
- Jewish legends.
- Rabbinical literature--History and criticism.
- Rabbinical literature.
- Women in rabbinical literature.
- Folklore in rabbinical literature.
- Galilee (Israel)--Social life and customs.
- Galilee (Israel).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 208 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In this lively and intellectually engaging book, Galit Hasan-Rokem shows that religion is shaped not only in the halls of theological disputation and institutions of divine study, but also in ordinary events of everyday life. Common aspects of human relations offer a major source for the symbols of religious texts and rituals of late antique Judaism as well as its partner in narrative dialogues, early Christianity, Hasan-Rokem argues. Focusing on the "neighborhood" of the Galilee that is the birthplace of many major religious and cultural developments, this book brings to life the riddles, parables, and folktales passed down in Rabbinic stories from the first half of the first millennium of the Common Era.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. Erecting the Fence: Texts, Contexts, Theories, and Strategies
- 2. Peeping through a Hole: Comparing and Borrowing
- 3. Building the Gate, or Neighbors Make Good Fences
- 4. The Evasive Center: Hadrian, the Old Man, the Neighbor, and the Rabbinic Rhetoric of the Empire
- 5. Between Us: A Conclusion
- Notes
- Index of Ancient Sources and Authors
- General Index
- Index of Modern Authors
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-190) and indexes.
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 9786612356872
- 9781282356870
- 1282356879
- 9780520928947
- 0520928946
- 9781597349307
- 1597349305
- OCLC:
- 475929747
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