Interpretation, Religion and Culture in Midrash and Beyond : : Proceedings of the 2006 and 2007 SBL Midrash Sessions.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Füzessy, Eszter Katalin,; Gottlieb, Isaac,; Phenix, Robert R.,; Sacks, Steven D.,; Smelik, Willem,; Townsend, John T.,; Ulmer, Rivka,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2008]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Series: Judaism in Context
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (157 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; INTRODUCTION --; THE SERMONS ON JOSEPH OF BALAI OF QENNEŠRĪN (EARLY FIFTH CENTURY CE) AS A WITNESS TO THE TRANSMISSION HISTORY AND INTERPRETIVE DEVELOPMENT OF JOSEPH TRADITIONS --; THE FOUNDATION STONE: REFLECTIONS ON THE ADOPTION AND TRANSFORMATION OF ‘PRIMORDIAL MYTH’ IN RABBINIC LITERATURE --; “DIALOGUES BETWEEN SAGES AND OUTSIDERS TO THE TRADITION”: FORMAL CHANGES TO THE LITERARY COMPOSITION AS A METHOD OF RELIGIOUS POLEMICS IN RABBINIC LITERATURE --; THE EXTREMES OF ESTHER AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR MIDRASH --; THE DEMISE OF THE SCHOOL OF SHAMMAI AND THE FALL OF JERUSALEM --; SOME REMARKS ON THE EGYPTIAN LANGUAGE (COPTIC) IN RABBINIC TEXTS --; LANGUAGE SELECTION AND THE HOLY TONGUE IN EARLY RABBINIC LITERATURE
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781463215941; 9783111024141; 9783110663037
• DOI: 10.31826/9781463215941
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph

The third issue of Proceedings of the Midrash session at the SBL Annual meeting published in this series. This volume contains papers on religion in midrash (2006) and modes of biblical interpretation in rabbinic, Syriac and Islamic traditions (2007).