Midrash and the Exegetical Mind : Proceedings of the 2008 and 2009 SBL Midrash Sessions.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gorgias Press, author, issuing body.

Series:

Judaism in context ; 10.

Judaism in Context

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Midrash--History and criticism--Congresses.

Midrash.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (v, 205 pages).

Place of Publication:

Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press, [2010]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Contained in this volume are the Proceedings of the Midrash session of the SBL's annual conferences in 2008 and 2009. This volume contains eight essays dealing with various aspects of rabbinic interpretation.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

Introduction

1. Rhapsody in Blue: The Origin of God's Footstool in the Aramaic Targumim and Midrashic Tradition / Adelman, Rachel

2. Biblical Text in Rabbinic Context: The Book of Chronicles in the Mishnah, Talmud and Midrash / Kalimi, Isaac

3. Lessons for Historiographers: Managing the Dynamics of Indeterminacy in Song of Songs Rabbah / Lasair, Simon

4. The Rabbinic Knife: Why and How the Rabbis castrated Noah / Martin, Erica L.

5. The Oral Orthography of Mishnaic and Toseftan Interpolation / Nelson, W. David

6. Derashah as Performative Exegesis in Tosefta and Mishnah / Polen, Nehemia

7. Sarah Saw a Hunter: The Venatic Motif in genesis rabbah 53:11 / Rainbow, Jesse

8. Hyper-Sexualization in the bavli: An Initial Survey / Rosen-Zvi, Ishay

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Apr 2019)

ISBN:

9781463224332

1463224338

OCLC:

1100430265