Sing and Rejoice, O daughter of Zion (Zechariah 2:14) : Studies in Pesiqta Rabbati / Rivka Ulmer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ulmer, Rivka, author.

Series:

Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2026.

The Brill Reference Library of Judaism ; 80.

Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2026

The Brill Reference Library of Judaism ; 80

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Study and teaching.

Jews.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (627 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Studies in Pesiqta Rabbati

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2026.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Pesiqta Rabbati is a midrashic collection of homilies derived from the Hebrew bible related to Jewish observance of festivals, fast days, and special Sabbaths. The book underscores the importance and purpose of Pesiqta Rabbati: to explain the centrality of midrash in the life, culture, and ethnicity of Jewish belief and practice, as well as the importance of practice sustaining the continuity of Jews and their identity. Textual details are drawn from contemporary events (5th- 11th century) and Jewish ethics. Topics include apocalyptic thought, the suffering Messiah ben Ephraim, the Jerusalem Temple, and reactions to Christianity and Islam. Methods applied are text linguistics, borderland theories, halachic discourse analysis, semiotics, and literary criticism.

Contents:

Preface

Part 1 The Rabbinic Work Pesiqta Rabbati

1 The Structure of Pesiqta Rabbati

1 The Text Gestalt of Pesiqta Rabbati

2 The Integrative Meta-Narrative in Pesiqta Rabbati

3 Internal and External Constraints

4 Text-Linguistic Analysis

5 Form Analysis: Problems in the Texts and Linguistic Gap-Filling

6 The System as a Whole: A Global Theory of Pesiqta Rabbati Homilies

7 Conclusion

2 A Comparison of Pesiqta Rabbati 29/30, Naḥamu, and Pesiqta de-Rav Kahana 16, Naḥamu, based on Two Manuscripts from Parma

1 The Location of the Naḥamu Homily in MS Parma 3254

3 Pesiqta Rabbati : Text Types and Small Literary Forms in a Rabbinic Homily

1 The Rabbinic Homily

2 A Mashal in Pesiqta Rabbati

3 A Global Theory of the Narrative ( Aggadah ) in Rabbinic Homilies

4 Conclusion

4 Pesiqta Rabbati : Redaction and Canonization

Part 2 Religious Themes

5 Midrashic Apocalypticism in Pesiqta Rabbati

1 Previous Scholarship on the Apocalypse in Pesiqta Rabbati

2 Midrash and Apocalypse

3 The Religious Context of Pesiqta Rabbati

4 The Destruction of the Jerusalem Temple

5 Conclusion

6 The Midrashim for Ḥanukkah: Survey and Sample Analysis

7 The Messiah in Pesiqta Rabbati

1 Conclusion

8 Pesiqta Rabbati and The Revelation to John : The Culture of Apocalypticism

1 Apocalyptic Thought as a Shared Cultural Expression of First-Century Jews and Christians

2 Apocalypses Available to Pesiqta Rabbati

3 The Apocalypse in the Book of Revelation

4 Shared Characteristic of Apocalyptic Tropes in Pesiqta Rabbati and The Revelation to John

5 The Progression of the Apocalypse

6 The Apocalyptic Messiah in Pesiqta Rabbati and in The Revelation to John

7 The Destruction of Jerusalem, the Evil Forces, and the Demise of the Beast or Satan

8 The New Jerusalem and the “Pearly Gate”

9 Conclusion

Part 3 Psalms and Prophets

9 Psalm 22 in Pesiqta Rabbati : The Suffering of the Jewish Messiah Ephraim and the Suffering of the Christian Messiah

1 Psalm 22 in the Hebrew Bible

2 Second Temple Period

3 Christian Texts and Tannaitic Literature

4 Animal Imagery in Psalm 22

5 Psalm 22 ( LXX Ψ 21) and the Crucifixion of Jesus

6 Additional Significant Lemmata from Psalm 22 in New Testament and Rabbinic Interpretations

10 Isaiah in Pesiqta de-Rav Kahana and Pesiqta Rabbati

1 Pesiqta Rabbati and Pesiqta de-Rav Kahana as Identifiable Rabbinic Works

2 A Description of Homiletic Midrash in which Isaiah Quotations Appear

3 The Liturgical Calendar as Reflected in the Homilies and Their Religious Messages

Part 4 History and Midrash

11 Pesiqta Rabbati in Eleventh-Century France

1 Citations of Pesiqta Rabbati

2 Additional Homilies

3 Methodology: Borderlands Theory

4 Narbonne as a Center of Jewish Scholarly Activity in the Eleventh Century

5 Quotations from Pesiqta Rabbati in Bereshit Rabbati

6 Conclusion

12 The Jerusalem Temple in Pesiqta Rabbati : From Creation to Apocalypse

1 The Integrative Meta-Narrative of Pesiqta Rabbati

2 Creation and the Temple

3 The Site of the Temple and Its Construction

4 The Temple Dedications

5 The Temple Service, the Direction of Prayer, and Liturgical Aspects

6 The Destruction of the Temple

7 Julian the Apostate’s Attempt to Rebuild the Jerusalem Temple

8 The Mourners of Zion, the Request to Rebuild the Temple, and the Time of Redemption

9 The Western Wall, the Roof of the Temple, and the Temple of the Future

10 Conclusion

13 Inscribing History in Midrash: The Campaign of Sennacherib

1 Methods

2 Hezekiah’s and Sennacherib’s Preparations for the Siege of Jerusalem

3 Hezekiah’s Prayer

4 The Instrumentality of an Angel in the Defeat of Sennacherib

5 Hezekiah and Isaiah

6 The Assyrian Exile and the Ten Tribes

7 Sennacherib’s Escape

8 Conclusion

14 Ancient Egypt and Roman Palestine: A Dialectical Relationship between History and Homiletic Midrash

1 Theories and Methodological Considerations

2 Historical Elements related to the Land of Israel

3 The Time Cycle

Part 5 Midrashic Theories

15 Pesiqta Rabbati as Mentioned by Leopold Zunz

1 Education and Spiritual Growth

2 The History of Culture

3 Criticism of Zunz

4 The Bible and Interpretation

5 The Lasting Impact of Zunz

16 The Boundaries of Midrash

1 The Chain of Tradition

2 Midrashic Works

3 Theological Concerns

4 Sociological Considerations

5 Midrash as a Distinctly Rabbinic Approach to the Bible

6 Playfulness: Midrash as a Game

7 Limited Rules of Interpretation

8 Semiotic Underpinnings of Midrash

9 The Absence of Theoretically Framed Evaluation Procedures

Part 6 Hebrew Manuscripts

17 Rabbinic Texts: Moving from a Synoptic to a Critical Edition of Pesiqta Rabbati

18 Some Questions in Respect to the Editing of Hebrew Manuscripts

Appendix

19 Manuscript Fragments of Pesiqta Rabbati

1 Origins in the Land of Israel

2 The Textual Identity of Pesiqta Rabbati in the Middle Ages

3 The Fragments of Pesiqta Rabbati

4 Pesiqta Rabbati Textual Witnesses

5 A Text-Linguistic Analysis and Literary Criticism of the Rabbinic Homily Applied to the Fragments of Pesiqta Rabbati

6 A Comparative List of Pesiqta Rabbati Homilies

7 The Cairo Genizah Fragments in the Context of Other Textual Witnesses

Part 7 Legal Texts

20 The Halakhic Part of the Yelammedenu in Pesiqta Rabbati

1 The Relationship between the Yelammedenu and Other Rabbinic Texts

2 The Literary Framework of the Yelammedenu

3 Specific Characteristics of the Yelammedenu in Rabbinic Homilies

5 Appendix

21 A Yelammedenu Unit in Pesiqta Rabbati and Midrash Tanḥuma : A Text-Linguistic Inquiry

1 The Yelammedenu and the Rabbinic Homily

2 Sources of the Yelammedenu Units

3 Text Type

4 The Halakhic Part of the Yelammedenu Tanḥuma , Bereshit

5 The Aggadic Part of the Yelammedenu

6 The Location of the Yelammedenu in the Homily

7 Textual Analysis

8 Midrash Tanḥuma , Naso 29–30

9 Tanḥuma , Buber edition, Naso 34

1 Secondary Sources

2 Dictionaries, Codices, Lexica, Encyclopedias

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

90-04-74830-X

9789004748309

OCLC:

1570554469

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004748309 DOI