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Miriam in Shreveport: Black History and Jewish Hermeneutics in Marian D. Moore’s Louisiana Midrash

Humanities
Jewish 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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“They Remembered That They Had Seen It in a Jewish Midrash”: How a Samaritan Tale Became a Legend of the Jews

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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Women’s Image in a Polish Magazine: Midrash [PDF]

, 2017
Midrash, a Polish social and cultural profile magazine (published since April 1997), is a monthly journal that is a representative of the so-called ‘minor press’. The magazine is connected with the Midrash Library publishing house.
null null, Bartosz Pietrzyk
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Contribuciones adicionales de ‘Abd al-Ḥaqq al-Islāmī a la polémica judío-musulmana

Al-Qantara : Revista de Estudios Arabes, 2016
‘Abd al-Ḥaqq al-Islāmī, un polemista musulmán del siglo XIV y de origen judío, ha sido algo silenciado por la investigación puesto que existían dudas respecto a la excepcionalidad y originalidad de su pensamiento, así como respecto a la extensión de su ...
Haggai Mazuz
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Teaching Midrash explicity in the primary school [PDF]

, 2008
Midrash (classic rabbinic interpretation of Hebrew Scripture) is taught alongside Scripture in Bible classes throughout the Jewish world in the primary school.
Sigel, Deena
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Bossy matrons and forced marriages: Talmudic confrontationalism and its philosophical significance

Open Philosophy, 2020
This article introduces the confrontational theology of the rabbinic literature of late antiquity by means of a well-known, yet ill-understood legend.
Fisch Menachem
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The Sixth Scroll: The Ritualization of Israel's Declaration of Independence

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the ritualization of Israel's Declaration of Independence (2011–2025) as part of broader efforts by Israeli Jewish renewal organizations to craft a national counter‐narrative. It argues that reframing the Declaration as a quasi‐sacred text—situated within the Jewish traditional corpus and recited with Biblical ...
Adi Sherzer
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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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Jewish Midrash in Jesuit Classrooms [PDF]

, 2014
Storytelling is of paramount importance in the Jewish tradition. The retelling of ancient stories by rabbinical sages is known is as Midrash. This article examines Midrash on multiple levels.
Robyn, Elisa, Rell, Amy Beth
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מֹשֶׁה, Μωυσῆς, مُوسَى : Image of the Prophet Moses in the Three Theistic Traditions [PDF]

Вестник Свято-Филаретовского института, 2013
The aim of the article is to show how the image of Moses in the Koran and Muslim lore correlates with its interpretations in Judaic and Christian traditions.
Alexey Zhuravskiy
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