Midrash and Context : : Proceedings of the 2004 and 2005 SBL Consultation on Midrash.

A collection of seven groundbreaking essays on Rabbinic midrash and related texts by a new generation of erudite scholars combining the themes of the 2004 and 2005 SBL midrash sessions: “Jewish and Christian Hermeneutics” and “Midrash and Cultural Studies,” this book is a must have for clergy, stude...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2007]
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Year of Publication:2007
Language:English
Series:Judaism in Context
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Physical Description:1 online resource (188 p.) :; 5
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Repeating His Grandfather’s Heresy: The Significance of the Charge That Job and Esau Denied the Resurrection of the Dead for Understanding Rabbinic Polemics
  • Jerome, The Book Of Exodus, and the World of Late Antiquity
  • Being the Temple: Early Jewish and Christian Interpretive Transpositions
  • Reading Augustine and/as Midrash: Genesis 6 in Genesis Rabbah and The City of God
  • The Letter to the Hebrews: Between Jewish and Christian Hermeneutics
  • Orality and Mnemonics in Aggadic Midrash
  • Egyptian Magic and the Osiris Myth in Midrash