Rabbinic Fantasies / Victoria Clark.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clark, Victoria, Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [1998]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This remarkable anthology of sixteen narratives from ancient and medieval Hebrew texts opens a new window onto the Jewish imagination. Presenting the captivating world of rabbinic storytelling, it reveals facets of the Jewish experience and tradition that would otherwise have remained unknown and examines the surprisingly deep connection between the values of classical Judaism and the art of imaginative narrative writing.Virtually all the narratives appear here in English for the first time. Sometimes pious, sometimes playful, and sometimes almost scandalous, they are each accompanied by an introduction and notes. The selections are framed by essays by David Stern and Mark Jay Mirsky that examine the various moods and forms in which the rabbinic imagination found expression and explore the impact that this unique form of narrative has had on modern fiction. The translations are by Norman Bronznick, Yaakov Elman, Michal Govrin, Arthur Green, Martha Himmelfarb, Ivan Marcus, Mark Jay Mirsky, Joel Rosenberg, David Ruderman, Raymond Scheindlin, David Stern, and Avi Weinstein.Yale Judaica Series

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

A Note On the Selections and the Translations

1. Rabbinic Parables

2. Two Narratives about God

3. Jonah and the Sailors from Pirkei de-Rabbi Eliezer

4. Sefer Zerubbabel

5. Midrash On the Ten Commandments

6. The Tale of the Jerusalemite

7. Midrash Eleh Ezkerah or The Legend of the Ten Martyrs

8. The Alphabet of Ben Sira

9. Parables from Sefer Ha-Bahir

10. Narrative Fantasies from Sefer Hasidim

11. Love in the Afterlife: A Selection from the Zohar

12. Asher in the Harem By Solomon Ibn Saqbel

13. The Misogynist By Judah Ibn Shabbetai

14. The Sorcerer from Meshal Ha-Kadmom by Isaac Ibn Sahula

15. Job's Novella from A Valley of Vision by Abraham ben Hananiah Yagel

16. The "Dream-Talks" of Nahman of Bratslav

In a Turn of the Scroll: An Afterword

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780300143645

0300143648

OCLC:

1013955223