Egyptian Cultural Icons in Midrash / / Rivka Ulmer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• VerfasserIn: Ulmer, Rivka,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Studia Judaica : Forschungen zur Wissenschaft des Judentums , 52
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (405 p.) :; 16 plates
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Table of contents --; Introduction: The Significance of Egypt in Rabbinic Texts --; Chapter One: Pharaohs Shoshenq, Necho, and Apries --; Chapter Two: The Nile --; Chapter Three: Egyptian Festivals --; Chapter Four: The Osiris Myth and Egyptian Magic --; Chapter Five: History, the Roman Emperor and Egyptian Funeral Practices --; Chapter Six: Alexandria --; Chapter Seven: Cleopatra, Isis, and Serapis --; Chapter Eight: The Egyptian Gods, Language, and Customs --; Chapter Nine: The Divine Eye --; Chapter Ten: The "Finding of Moses" in Art and Text --; Backmatter
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110223934; 9783110238570; 9783110238549; 9783110638165; 9783110219517; 9783110219524; 9783110219494
• ISSN: 0585-5306
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110223934
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Rivka Ulmer.

Rabbinic midrash included Egyptian religious concepts. These textual images are compared to Egyptian culture. Midrash is analyzed from a cross-cultural perspective utilizing insights from the discipline of Egyptology. Egyptian textual icons in rabbinic texts are analyzed in their Egyptian context.Rabbinic knowledge concerning Egypt included: Alexandrian teachers are mentioned in rabbinic texts; Rabbis traveled to Alexandria; Alexandrian Jews traveled to Israel; trade relations existed; Egyptian, as well as Roman and Byzantine, artifacts relating to Egypt.Egyptian elements in the rabbinic discourse: the Nile inundation, the Greco-Roman Nile god, festivals, mummy portraits, funeral customs, language, Pharaohs, Cleopatra VII, magic, the gods Isis and Serapis. The hermeneutical role of Egyptian cultural icons in midrash is explored. Methods applied: comparative literature; semiotics; notions of time and space; the dialectical model of Theodor Adorno; theories of cultural identity by Jürgen Habermas; iconography (Mary Hamer); landscape theory; embodied fragments of memory (Jan Assmann).