Scripture as Logos : : Rabbi Ishmael and the Origins of Midrash / / Azzan Yadin.
The study of midrash-the biblical exegesis, parables, and anecdotes of the Rabbis-has enjoyed a renaissance in recent years. Most recent scholarship, however, has focused on the aggadic or narrative midrash, while halakhic or legal midrash-the exegesis of biblical law-has received relatively little...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013] ©2004 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (248 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface: Legal Midrash
- Introduction: On the Hermeneutic Dimension of Midrash Halakhah
- Chapter 1. Torah and Ha-Katuv
- Chapter 2. Inaction and Attention
- Chapter 3. Freedom and Restraint in Midrash Halakhah
- Chapter 4. The Role of the Reader I
- Chapter 5. The Role of the Reader II
- Chapter 6. Presponsive Torah
- Chapter 7. Rabbi Ishmael and the Rabbis
- Chapter 8. The Non-Rabbinic Landscape
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments