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Déjà Vu: Shirley Kaufman’s Poetry on Biblical Women

Religions, 2019
This article explores Shirley Kaufman’s reading of the Bible as an elaboration on/of its feminine characters via three devices: (a) Dramatic monologues, in which the woman speaks for herself (“Rebecca” and “Leah”); (b ...
Anat Koplowitz-Breier
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‘How shall we kill him? By sword, fire or lions?’: The Aramaic Targum and the Midrashic narrative on Haman’s gallows

HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2020
The Midrashic literature and biblical translations focus majorly on the verses that describe the gathering in Haman’s house and the preparing of the gallows for Mordechai the Jew (Es 5:14). The goal of this study is to discuss the narrative shaped by the
Abraham O. Shemesh
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Race, Science, Islam and the Search for New Gods

Religious Studies Review, Volume 51, Issue 4, Page 978-982, December 2025.
Geoffrey Hughes
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Le Midrash de la Seconde Paque

, 1973
Ce Midrash sur la pureté requise pour célébrer la Pâque fournit un exemple de ce qu'était le midrash pratiqué par les rabbins. Il permet de définir la haggada comme un mode de penser original à travers lequel les maîtres d'Israël n'ont cessé d'actualiser
Goetschel, Roland
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Gender, voice, and canon

Transformative Works and Cultures, 2019
The Jewish tradition of midrash (exegetical/interpretive fiction) parallels the fannish tradition of creating fan works in more ways than one. In the twentieth century, both contexts saw the rise of women's voices, shifting or commenting on androcentric ...
Rachel Barenblat
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Hermenia as a genre of coptic liturgical literature [PDF]

Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Сериа III. Филология, 2018
This article deals with a genre known as hermenia and attested in early Coptic religious literature. Hermenia represents a compilation of verses from Psalter (with a rare addition of verses from other Biblical books) that are picked according to the ...
Eugenia Smagina
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Polémique antichrétienne et théologie dans le Sefer ha-‘iqqarim de Yosef Albo (xve siècle)

Yod, 2010
Written in 1425 by one of the participants in the Disputation of Tortosa (1413-1414), the Sefer ha-Iqqarim is one of the most important philosophical-theological writings of the 14th and 15th centuries. It was composed during the period comprised between
Philippe Bobichon
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“She Laughs at the Future” (Prov. 31:24b): Reading Sarah's Queer Jouissance

Religious Studies Review, Volume 51, Issue 2, Page 341-343, June 2025.
Esther Brownsmith
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Narratology, Hermeneutics, and Midrash [PDF]

, 2014
The contributions compiled in this volume comprise studies of Jewish texts – biblical, rabbinic, medieval, and modern – as well as of patristic and medieval Christian texts, and in one case, a passage of the Muslim text par excellence, the Quran.
Cordoni, Constanza, Langer, Gerhard
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A.J. Berkovitz: A Life of Psalms in Jewish Late Antiquity. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023; pp. x + 263.

Journal of Religious History, Volume 48, Issue 4, Page 491-493, December 2024.
Eileen Schuller
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