Midrash and multiplicity : Pirke de-Rabbi Eliezer and the renewal of rabbinic interpretive culture / Steven Daniel Sacks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sacks, Steven Daniel.

Series:

Studia Judaica (Walter de Gruyter & Co.) ; Bd. 48.

Studia Judaica, Forschungen zur Wissenschaft des Judentums, 0585-5306 ; Bd. 48

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pirkei de-Rabbi Eliezer--Language, style.

Pirkei de-Rabbi Eliezer.

Pirkei de-Rabbi Eliezer--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (192 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; New York : Walter de Gruyter, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Pirke de-Rabbi Eliezer represents a late development in "midrash", or classical rabbinic interpretation, that has enlightened, intrigued and frustrated scholars of Jewish culture for the past two centuries. Pirke de-Rabbi Eliezer's challenge to scholarship includes such issues as the work's authorship and authenticity, an asymmetrical literary structure as well as its ambiguous relationship with a variety of rabbinic, Islamic and Hellenistic works of interpretation. This cluster of issues has contributed to the confusion about the work's structure, origins and identity. Midrash and Multiplicity addresses the problems raised by this equivocal work, and uses Pirke de-Rabbi Eliezer in order to assess the nature of "midrash", and the renewal of Jewish interpretive culture, during its transition to the medieval era of the early "Geonim".

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

PRE and the History of Rabbinic Interpretation

Literary Arrangement in PRE

PRE and Pseudepigraphy

PRE and the Language of Scripture

PRE and the Rabbinic Tradition

Conclusion

Backmatter

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-174) and index.

ISBN:

9786612456718

9781282456716

1282456717

9783110212822

311021282X

OCLC:

609852902