Jews, Bible and Prayer : : Essays on Jewish Biblical Exegesis and Liturgical Notions / / Stefan C. Reif.

In his articles Stefan Reif deas with Jewish biblical exegesis and the close analysis of the evolution of Jewish prayer texts. Some fourteen of these that appeared in various collective volumes are here made more easily available, together with a major new study of Numbers 13, an introduction and ex...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2017 Part 1
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2017]
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Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft , 498
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VIII, 377 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1 The Damascus Document from the Cairo Genizah: Its Discovery, Early Study and Historical Significance
  • 2 Aspects of the Jewish Contribution to Biblical Interpretation
  • 3 Early Rabbinic Exegesis of Genesis 38
  • 4 The Classical Jewish Commentators on Exodus 2
  • 5 Medieval Jewish Commentators on Numbers 13
  • 6 Psalm 93: An Historical and Comparative Survey of its Jewish Interpretations
  • 7 Some Comments on the Connotations of the Stem גער in Early Rabbinic Texts
  • 8 On some Connotations of the Word Ma‘aseh
  • 9 How did Early Judaism Understand the Concept of ‘Avodah?
  • 10 Wisdom Traditions in Some Early Rabbinic Prayers?
  • 11 The Figure of David in Early Jewish Prayer
  • 12 The Function of History in Early Rabbinic Liturgy
  • 13 Peace in Early Jewish Prayer
  • 14 The ‘Amidah Benediction on Forgiveness: Links between its Theology and its Textual Evolution
  • 15 The Fathership of God in Early Rabbinic Liturgy
  • 16 Some Divine Metaphors in Early Rabbinic Liturgy
  • Index of Names
  • Index of Sources
  • Index of subjects, rites and prayers