Rabbinic parodies of Jewish and Christian literature / / Holger Michael Zellentin.

• Superior document: Texte und Studien zum antiken Judentum ; 139 = Texts and studies in ancient Judaism ; 139,
• Author: Zellentin, Holger M., 1976-
• Place / Publishing House: Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, 2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: 1. Aufl.
• Language: English
• Series: Texte und Studien zum antiken Judentum ; 139.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (286 p.)
• Notes: Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph.D. - Princeton) under the title: Late Antiquity Upside Down: Rabbinic Parodies of Jewish and Christian Literature.

Hauptbeschreibung Holger M. Zellentin seeks to probe how far the classical rabbis took their literary playfulness in order to advance their religious and societal causes. Building on the literary approaches to rabbinic Judaism of the past decades, this work considers the rabbis' attitudes towards their Byzantine and Sassanian surroundings. The author examines how the Talmud and Midrash in Palestine and Persia repeat previous texts with comical difference, oscillating between reverence and satire. The result shows rabbinic society and its literature engaging in the great debates of t

Table of Contents

Cover; Acknowledgments; Table of Contents; Introduction: "For Out of Babylon Shall Go Forth the Torah: " A Few Notes on Parody and the Rabbis (Yerushalmi Nedarim 6.13, 40a); Blessed Are the Cheese Makers: Parody and Satire; Collective Rabbinic Authorship; Humor in Antiquity; Imitated Texts and Targeted Texts; Parody and Rabbinic Literature; Rabbis and Others; Chapter One: Of Mice and Men: Rabbinic Parody and its Halakhic Limits (Bava Metsi'a 97a); Chapter Two: The Grapes of Wrath: A Palestinian Parody of a Temperance Sermon (Wayiqra Rabbah 12.1); Halakhic Parody?; A Parody of Nadav and Avihu

A Parody of the Temperance SermonRedaction and Adaptation: Between Aesop and Wayiqra Rabbah; Aaron's Sons and Wine in Wayiqra Rabbah; Encratites and the Temperance Sermon; Chapter Three: The Interpretation of Dreams: A Parody of the Yerushalmi's Dream Book (Berakhot 56a-b); Rava, the Fool; The Bar Hedya Story; (I) Bar Hedya is a Hawk; (II) Rava is a Thief; (III) Amoraim are Asses; (IV) Two Blows for Rava; (V) Rava Loses his Brains; (VI) Rava needs a Miracle; (VII) Bar Hedya Cut in Half; Rabbi Ishmael between the Yerushalmi and the Bavli; Bar Hedya and Rabbi Ishmael: Dreams of Destruction

Bar Hedya and Rabbi Ishmael: Dreams of DiseaseBar Hedya and Rabbi Eliezer: Dreams of Death; Bar Hedya and the Bavli's Dream Book; Chapter Four: Margin of Error: A Babylonian Parody of the Sermon on the Mount (Shabbat 116a-b); Rabbis and Christians; Corrupt Judges from Palestine to Babylonia; Bribing a Philosopher; Two Versions of Imma Shalom; The Context and the Actors; Daughters and the Law; Abrogation of the Torah; Jesus and the Torah; Let your Light Shine; Overturning the Lamp; Conclusion; Chapter Five: To Kill a Mockingbird: A Palestinian Parody of the Sermon on the Mount

Rashbi in the CavePurity; Providence; Asceticism; Seclusion; Epimenides and Rashbi in the Cave and the City; Porphyry of Gaza: Caves and Corpses in Christian Asceticism; Corpse Impurity in Rabbinic Culture; Rashbi's long way home; Rabbinic Authority; Rashbi as Heresiology; Rashbi between Heresy and Orthodoxy; Conclusion: Incline After the Majority: Rabbinic Parody and Rabbinic Literature (Yerushalmi Mo ed Qatan 3.1, 81c-d); Parodies between the Yerushalmi and the Bavli; Bibliography; Index Scripture; Hebrew Bible; New Testament; Mishna; Tosefta; Halakhic Midrashim; Talmud Yerushalmi

Aggadic MidrashimTalmud Bavli; Index of Modern Authors; General Index