Current Trends in the Study of Midrash

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Carol Bakhos
BRILL, 2006 - 336 Seiten
This collection of essays by many of the leading scholars of midrash and rabbinics reflects the various current methodological approaches to the study of rabbinic scriptural interpretation. During the last three decades of the 20th century scholars in the field made significant forays into literary studies, interdisciplinary studies, and to some degree women s studies. This volume thus illustrates these trends, and highlights several fundamental studies, such as the origins of midrash, the making of critical editions, and the relationship of midrash to other forms of Jewish as well as non-Jewish exegesis. Situating midrash within the broader contexts of hermeneutics, rabbinics and postmodern studies, the volume as a whole presents the reader with a comprehensive view of the kinds of questions and issues scholars in the field are engaging.
 

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Introduction
1
Chapter Two Resistance to Midrash? Midrash and Halakhah
35
Chapter Three Rewritten Bible and Rabbinic Midrash
59
Chapter Four Reflections on the Practice of Textual Criticism
79
Chapter Five Midrash Christian Exegesis and Hellenistic
111
Chapter Six The Use of Midrash for Social History
133
Chapter Seven Methodological Matters in the Study of Midrash
161
Chapter Eight Literary Approaches to Midrash
189
Chapter Ten The Handmaid the Trickster and the Birth of
245
Chapter Twelve DeReconstructing Midrash
299
IndexofPrimarySources
323
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Carol Bakhos, Ph.D. (2000) in Jewish Studies, Jewish Theological Seminary, is Assistant Professor of Late Antique Judaism at UCLA. She has edited a volume, Ancient Judaism in its Hellenistic Context (Brill, 2005), and her book, Ishmael on the Border: Rabbinic portrayals of the First Arab (SUNY Press, 2006).

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