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2013
This chapter covers the phenomenon of piyut, which is one of the comprehensive designations of Jewish liturgical poetry and an archaeology of rabbinic tradition. The piyut's major classical and early post-classical creativity spans the fifth to eleventh centuries that originated in the Land of Israel and spread east and west.
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This chapter covers the phenomenon of piyut, which is one of the comprehensive designations of Jewish liturgical poetry and an archaeology of rabbinic tradition. The piyut's major classical and early post-classical creativity spans the fifth to eleventh centuries that originated in the Land of Israel and spread east and west.
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2013
This chapter highlights the period of Middle Aramaic that gave birth to three literary dialects of Aramaic: Jewish Aramaic, Syriac, and Mandaic. It focuses on Syriac, the local dialect of Edessa, which provide the largest literature and prove to be the longest-lived in active use. During the course of the first period covering the fourth to the seventh
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This chapter highlights the period of Middle Aramaic that gave birth to three literary dialects of Aramaic: Jewish Aramaic, Syriac, and Mandaic. It focuses on Syriac, the local dialect of Edessa, which provide the largest literature and prove to be the longest-lived in active use. During the course of the first period covering the fourth to the seventh
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The Shunammite, the Shulamite and the Professor between Midrash and Midrash
Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, 2001This article intends to show the part the Hebrew Bible and the midrashic tools play in the life of modern Israeli society. It describes a debate published in a daily newspaper in 1997. The participants were a lecturer in Talmud who presented and analyzed a midrashic interpretation of 2 Kgs 4.27, a public figure who responded to that interpretation, and
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2018
Midrash, a Hebrew word meaning ‘investigation’ or ‘study’, denotes both the method used by the Jewish rabbis of the second to sixth centuries ad to interpret the Bible and the extensive literature that resulted from the application of that method. In rabbinic parlance midrash, or the related term derash, can also designate a homiletic, non-literal way ...
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Midrash, a Hebrew word meaning ‘investigation’ or ‘study’, denotes both the method used by the Jewish rabbis of the second to sixth centuries ad to interpret the Bible and the extensive literature that resulted from the application of that method. In rabbinic parlance midrash, or the related term derash, can also designate a homiletic, non-literal way ...
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Journal of the American Oriental Society, 1995
The Midrash on Proverbs, a ninth-century collection of rabbinical commentary on the Book of Proverbs, is now available to English-speaking audiences for the first time. Burton L. Visotzky here provides a lucid translation of the work from his annotated critical edition of the Hebrew text, Midrash Mishle.
Judah Goldin, Burton L. Visotzky
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The Midrash on Proverbs, a ninth-century collection of rabbinical commentary on the Book of Proverbs, is now available to English-speaking audiences for the first time. Burton L. Visotzky here provides a lucid translation of the work from his annotated critical edition of the Hebrew text, Midrash Mishle.
Judah Goldin, Burton L. Visotzky
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The Midrash and “Biographic Rehabilitation”
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1986Studies have demonstrated that many Western schizophrenics suffer from a ruptured linear time conception reflected in their inability to relate their present to past and future. It is hypothesized that the futurist "clean leaf" rehabilitation model, according to which past failures are to be conceived as a "closed book," is rooted in an unshakeable ...
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2013
This chapter discusses how Jews began to produce dictionaries of their own canonical texts. Particularly significant is the recent discovery of a number of leaves of the ‘lost’ dictionary of Hai Gaon, entitled Kitab al-hawi, which lists words belonging to the main corpora of the author's religious tradition: Scripture, Targum, Talmud, and Midrash.
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This chapter discusses how Jews began to produce dictionaries of their own canonical texts. Particularly significant is the recent discovery of a number of leaves of the ‘lost’ dictionary of Hai Gaon, entitled Kitab al-hawi, which lists words belonging to the main corpora of the author's religious tradition: Scripture, Targum, Talmud, and Midrash.
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2013
This chapter describes the narrative of the Toledot yeshu, which retells the story of Jesus and the rise of Christianity. Lively and memorable in its fabulous elements, the Toledot yeshu offers alternatives to Christian claims about the birth, way of life, and miracles of Jesus, his resurrection, and the subsequent apostolic preaching.
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This chapter describes the narrative of the Toledot yeshu, which retells the story of Jesus and the rise of Christianity. Lively and memorable in its fabulous elements, the Toledot yeshu offers alternatives to Christian claims about the birth, way of life, and miracles of Jesus, his resurrection, and the subsequent apostolic preaching.
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