Travel Narratives in Rabbinic Literature [electronic resource] : Voyages to Imaginary Realms

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grossmark, Tziona.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Biography in rabbinical literature.

Rabbinical literature--History and criticism.

Rabbinical literature.

Biography in rabbinical literature--History and criticism.

Local Subjects:

Biography in rabbinical literature.

Rabbinical literature--History and criticism.

Rabbinical literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (267 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Travel Narratives in Rabbinic Literature

Place of Publication:

Lewiston : The Edwin Mellen Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

As a literary genre travelers' stories have grown out of oral traditions. These traditions flourished along the trade routes of the ancient world. Indeed the roads around the Mediterranean basin were busy with traffic during the Roman and Byzantine periods. This anthology of twenty-one travelers' tales examines the Talmudic tales as an inter-cultural phenomenon.

Contents:

TRAVEL NARRATIVES IN RABBINIC LITERATURE: Voyages to Imaginary Realms; Copyright Page; Dedications; Table of Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Prologue: 'Come and I Will Show You Where Heaven and Earth Touch One Another'; Part One: Background; Chapter 1: Rabbinic Literature, Historical Background and Methodological Outline; Chapter 2: Biography in Rabbinic Literature, Some Preliminary Observations; Chapter 3: 'Being There', A Few Comments on Travelers' Tales; Chapter 4: Rabba bar Bar Hanna, A Literary Biography

Chapter 5: 'He Who Sells a Ship', The Talmudic Context of Rabba bar Bar Hanna's Travelers' TalesPart Two: The Tales; Chapter 6: 'The Wave that Sinks a Ship', In the Perils of the Tides; Chapter 7: 'I saw Hormin the son of Lilith', A Demon on the Walls of Mahuza; Chapter 8: Monstrous Creatures, 'I Saw an Antelope, One Day Old that was as Big as Mount Tabor'; Chapter 9: Spinning a Yarn, 'Once We Were Traveling on Board a Ship and Saw a Fish'; Chapter 10: 'Shall We Have a Share of Your Flesh?', On Mythical Birds and Eschatological Perceptions

Chapter 11: 'We were once traveling in a desert', Rabba bar Bar Hanna in the Footsteps of the Children of Israel in the Wilderness of SinaiChapter 12: Back to the Sea, On Precious Stones and Sea Monsters; Epilogue: 'And There would be an End of All My Adventures'; Ch. N. Bialik, The Dead of the Wilderness; Appendices; Appendix 1 - The 21 Tales, An analytical table; Appendix 3 - The use of the formulas in other rabbinic texts; Appendix 4 - Division of the tales into clusters; Appendix 5 - The sequence of Travelers' tales; Appendix 6 - O(r)zila de-yama (b.B. Bat. 74b)

Appendix 7 - The Hebrew TextAppendix 8 - A comparison of b.B. Bat. 74a and b.Ber. 3a; Appendix 9 - A comparison of tales nos. 18-19; Bibliography; Indices; Index of Passages from Rabbinical Literature; Index of Hebrew and Aramaic Words; Index of Sages; General Index

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ISBN:

0-7734-3031-8

OCLC:

818851289