Re-Presenting Texts : : Jewish and Black Biblical Interpretation / / ed. by W. David Nelson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Adelman, Rachel,; Alpert, Rebecca,; Davis, Stacy,; Gafney, Wil,; Hopkins, Jamal-Dominique,; Lieber, Laura S.,; Lieber, Laura,; Nelson, W. David,; Ulmer, Rivka,
• HerausgeberIn: Nelson, W. David,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Judaism in Context
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (148 p.)

This is the fifth issue of Proceedings of the Midrash Section at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature published in this series, and contains six papers on Jewish and Black biblical hermeneutics with regard to Rabbinic Midrash.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Eurocentrism: The Tie That Binds Black Christian and White Jewish Biblical Scholarship -- 2. The Noahic Curse in Rabbinic Literature: Racialized Hermeneutics or Ethnocentric Exegesis -- 3. Translating Rabbinic Texts on the Curse of Ham: What We Learn from Charles Copher and His Critics -- 4. It Does Matter If You’re Black or White, Too-Black or Too-White, But Mestizo is Just Right -- 5. Response to W. David Nelson, Wil Gafney, Jamal-Dominique Hopkins, and Rebecca Alpert -- 6. Rejoinder: Black and Jewish Hermeneutics -- 7. Preempting the Redemption: The Bones of the Ephraimites and the Messianic Pretender in Midrash -- 8. The Poetry of Creation: Zevadiah and Amittai’s Yotzerot le-Ḥatan (“Groom’s Yotzers”)