Midrash Unbound

Transformations and Innovations

Michael Fishbane, Joanna Weinberg (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

480 Seiten

2013
The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization (Verlag)
9781904113713 (ISBN)

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An innovative and comprehensive study of Midrash and its creative role in the formation of culture.

Midrash is arguably the most ancient genre of Jewish literature, forming a voluminous body of scriptural exegesis over the course of centuries. There is hardly anything in the ancient rabbinic universe that was not taught through this medium. The diversity and development of that creative profusion are presented here in a new light. The contributors cover a broad range of texts, from late antiquity to the modern period and from all the centres of literary creativity, including non-rabbinic and non-Jewish literature, so that the full extent of the modes and transformations of Midrash can be fully appreciated. A comprehensive introduction situates Midrash in its historical and cultural setting, pointing to creative adaptations within the tradition and providing a sense of the variety of genres and applications discussed in the body of the book.

Bringing together an impressive array of the leading names in the field, the volume is innovative in both its scope and content, seeking to open a new period in the study of Midrash and its creative role in the formation of culture. It should be of interest to all scholars of Jewish studies, as well as to a wider readership interested in the interrelationships between hermeneutics, culture, and creativity, and especially in the afterlife of a classical genre and its ability to inspire new creativity in many forms.

Michael Fishbane is Professor of Jewish Studies in the Divinity School of the University of Chicago, an elected fellow of the American Academy for Jewish Research and holder of a Lifetime Award for Textual Studies from the National Foundation for Jewish Culture in America. Joanna Weinberg is Professor of Early Modern Jewish History and Rabbinics at the University of Oxford.

Note on Transliteration

Introduction - Michael Fishbane and Joanna Weinberg

Part I Origins and Subsurface Traditions

1Midrash and the Meaning of Scripture - Michael Fishbane

2The Hand upon the Lord’s Throne: Targumic and Midrashic Perceptions of Exodus 17: 14--16 - Robert Hayward

3Unwashed Hands: A Midrashic Controversy in the Gospel of Matthew - Piet van Boxel

4‘Tradunt Hebraei . . .’ The Problem of the Function and Reception of Jewish Midrash in Jerome - Alison Salvesen
5Midrash in Syriac - Sebastian Brock

Part II Later Midrashic Forms

6Piyut and Midrash: Between Poetic Invention and Rabbinic Convention - Michael Fishbane

7The Mourners of Zion and the Suffering Messiah: Pesikta rabati 34---Structure, Theology, and Content - Philip Alexander

8The Toledot jeshu as Midrash - William Horbury

9Storytelling as Midrashic Discourse in the Middle Ages - Eli Yassif

10Performative Midrash in the Memory of Ashkenazi Martyrs - Ivan G. Marcus

Part III Medieval Transformations

11Midrash in a Leixical Key: The Arukh of Nathan ben Yehiel - Joanna Weinberg

12Rashi’s Choice: The {H.}umash Commentary as Rewritten Midrash - Ivan G. Marcus

13The Pendulum of Exegetical Methodology: From the Peshat to the Derash and Back - Sara Japhet

14Midrashic Texts and Methods in Tosafist Torah Commentaries - Ephraim Kanarfogel

15Zoharic Literature and Midrashic Temporality - Elliot Wolfson

Part IV Early Modern and Modern Traditions

16The Ingathering of Midrash Rabbah - Benjamin Williams

17Midrash in Medieval and Early Modern Sermons - Marc Saperstein
18Rabbi Judah Loew of Prague and his Attitude to the Aggadah - Jacob Elbaum

19The Destruction of the Temple: A Yiddish Booklet for the Ninth of Av - Jacob Elbaum and Chava Turniansky

20Midrash in Habad Hasidism - Naftali Loewenthal

Notes on Contributors

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	19.12.2013
Reihe/Serie	The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	885 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
ISBN-13	9781904113713 / 9781904113713
Zustand	Neuware