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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Barmash, Pamela, editor.

Nelson, W. David, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. Exodus--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible.

Jews--Identity.

Jews.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (271 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lanham, [Maryland] : Lexington Books, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<span><span style=""font-style:italic;"">Exodus in the Jewish Experience: Echoes and Reverberations</span><span> investigates how the Exodus 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.</span></span>

Contents:

Contents; Introduction. The Exodus: Central, Enduring, and Generative; Chapter 1. Out of the Mists of History: The Exaltation of the Exodus in the Bible; Chapter 2. Discontinuity and Dissonance: Torah, Textuality, and Early Rabbinic Hermeneutics of Exodus; Chapter 3. The Past as Paradigm: Enactments of the Exodus Motif in Jewish Liturgy; Chapter 4. The Impact of the Exodus on Halakhah (Jewish Law); Chapter 5. Passover and Thanatos in Medieval Jewish Consciousness; Chapter 6. Observations on the Biblical Miniatures in Spanish Haggadot

Chapter 7. From Myth to Memory: A Study of German Jewish Translations of Exodus 12-13:16Chapter 8. The Desert Comes to Zion: A Narrative Ends its Wandering; Index; About the Contributors

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4985-0293-8