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Feminismo/s, 2012 This article ventures into the possibility of a feminine discourse about God, based on the study of the classical sources, which are not widely known in Spanish.
Ethel Katz de Barylka
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Fan fiction and midrash: Making meaning
Transformative Works and Cultures, 2014 Just as Jews interpret Torah through midrash (exegetical stories that explore and explain the text), fans interpret contemporary source texts through fan fiction, which functions just as midrash does to sustain community and enable members of that ...
Rachel Barenblat
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Yod, 2010 The theme of the fight against Amaleq occupies an important place in the rabbinic literature and it is not surprising that the Zohar should further develop it.
Roland Goetschel
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‘And God gave Solomon wisdom’: Proficiency in ornithomancy
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2018 The biblical text accords a great deal of attention to King Solomon’s personal abilities and governmental power. Solomon was described as a judge, poet, constructor and the wisest of all people in the Ancient Near East and Egypt.
Abraham O. Shemesh
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Midrash in the New Testament: John vs. Synoptikoi [PDF]
Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Сериа III. Филология, 2017 This paper deals with prefaces to the gospels of Matthew, Luke and John. From the point of view of their genre, the fi rst two are the midrash, i.e. an interpretation based on written sources and the oral tradition of Judaism.
Alexeev Anatoly
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A Nameless Bride of Death: Jephthah’s Daughter in American Jewish Women’s Poetry
Open Theology, 2020 In the Hebrew Bible, Jephthah’s daughter has neither name nor heir. The biblical account (Judg. 11:30–40) is somber—a daughter due to be sacrificed because of her father’s rash vow. The theme has inspired numerous midrashim and over five hundred artistic
Koplowitz-Breier Anat
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Tibåt Mårqe: A New Edition with English Translation
Religions, 2020 This contribution presents a short introduction to the new edition of Tibåt Mårqe. The oldest manuscript of Tibåt Mårqe dates from the 14th century but only fragments of it are preserved.
Abraham Tal
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Religions, 2021 This article relates the transmission history of a single Samaritan text and its fascinating trajectory from a Samaritan legend into early modern rabbinic tradition, and on to nineteenth and early twentieth century Jewish studies circles.
Steven Fine
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IN THE FOLDS OF TIME: RASHĪD AL‐DĪN ON THEORIES OF HISTORICITY
History and Theory, Volume 58, Issue 4, Page 20-42, December 2019., 2019 ABSTRACT By focusing on Rashīd al‐Dīn's (d. 718/1318) historiographical oeuvre and here in particular his “History of the World,” this article challenges the usual approach to his Jāmiʿ al‐tawārīkh (Compendium of Chronicles) and argues that his was a deeply pluralistic enterprise in a world with many centers, tremendous demographic change, high social ...
JUDITH PFEIFFER
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Miriam in Shreveport: Black History and Jewish Hermeneutics in Marian D. Moore’s Louisiana Midrash
HumanitiesJewish thinkers and artists have used Midrash as a framework for exploring the entanglement of cultural inheritance and social justice projects. Marian D. Moore’s (1956–) poetry collection Louisiana Midrash (2019) exemplifies this dynamic.
Brian Hillman
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