"It's better to hear the rebuke of the wise than the song of fools" (Qoh 7:5) : : Proceedings of the Midrash Section, Society of Biblical Literature, Volume 6 / / ed. by W. David Nelson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2015
• MitwirkendeR: Jacobs, Jonathan,; Kaplan, Jonathan,; Keim, Katharina,; Lehmhaus, Lennart,; Polen, Nehemia,; Ramelli, Ilaria,; Sacks, Steven Daniel,
• TeilnehmendeR: Jacobs, Jonathan.; Kaplan, Jonathan.; Lehmhaus, Lennart.; Polen, Nehemiah.; Ramelli, Ilaria L. E.; Sacks, Steven.
• HerausgeberIn: Nelson, W. David,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Judaism in Context
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (200 p.)

This volume contains selected proceedings of the Midrash Section sessions convened during the 2012-2014 meetings of the Society of Biblical Literature. It is comprised of contributions by leading and emerging scholars that share a common focus on Rabbinic biblical interpretation as it intersects wit...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• 1. Ancient Jewish and Christian Exegeses of the 'Curse of Ham': Divergent Strategies against the Background of Ancient Views on Slavery
• 2. Jacob's Double: A Reduplicative Confabulation of Post- Biblical Literature
• 3. The Holy of Holies or the Holiest? Rabbi Akiva's Characterization of Song of Songs in Mishnah Yadayim 3:5
• 4. The Spirit among the Sages: Seder Olam, the End of Prophecy, and Sagely Illumination
• 5. Blessed be He, Who Remembered the Earlier Deeds and Overlooks the Later - Prayer, Benedictions, and Liturgy in the New Rhetoric Garb of Late Midrashic Traditions
• 6. The Role of Small Forms in Pirqe de-Rabbi Eliezer
• 7. Inner-Biblical Exegesis in Rashbam's Commentary on Qohelet