Seder Eliyahu : A Narratological Reading / Constanza Cordoni.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cordoni, Constanza, author.

Series:

Studia Judaica (Walter de Gruyter & Co.) ; Band 100.

Studia Judaica ; 100

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tanna de-vei Eliyahu.

Midrash.

Rabbinical literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 300 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The book is concerned with a so called ethical midrash, Seder Eliyahu (also known as Tanna debe Eliyahu), a post-talmudic work probably composed in the ninth century. It provides a survey of the research on this late midrash followed by five studies of different aspects related to what is designated as the work's narratology. These include a discussion of the problem of the apparent pseudo-epigraphy of the work and of the multiple voices of the text; a description of the various narrative types which the work, itself as a whole of non-narrative character, makes use of; a detailed treatment of Seder Eliyahu's parables and most characteristic first person narratives (an extremely unusual form of narrative discourse in rabbinic literature); as well as a final chapter dedicated to selected women stories in this late midrash. As it emerges from the survey in chapter 1 such a narratologically informed study of Seder Eliyahu represents a new approach in the research on a work that is clearly the product of a time of transition in Jewish literature.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Abbreviations of Ancient Sources

1. Introduction

2. The Voices of Seder Eliyahu

3. A Typology of Narrative Forms of Seder Eliyahu

4. Parabolical Passages on the Disciples of the Wise

5. Men with Scripture but No Mishnah

6. Late-Midrashic Stories of Women

7. Conclusion

Bibliography

Indices

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Aug 2018)

ISBN:

9783110531305

3110531305

9783110531879

3110531879

OCLC:

1049628703