Jacob Neusner

Comparative Midrash

Sifré to Numbers and Sifré Zutta to Numbers

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Produktbeschreibung

The documentary hypothesis of the Rabbinic canon of late antiquity maintains that complete documents form the smallest whole building blocks of the Rabbinic system. These two volumes undertake a concrete exercise in the realization of the documentary hypothesis. It compares the rhetorical/formal and exegetical traits of two entire, kindred documents. Then, through a side by side chart, it compares each component of the two documents' treatment of the same extended segment of Scripture, Numbers 19. Whole documents are to be described and analyzed through a process of systematic description, comparison, and contrast. What makes the study fresh is that the author compares the two documents of the rabbinic canon that are most alike-the two Sifrés on Numbers. What makes it surprising is the result: they have nothing in common. Each is autonomous, and except for the scriptural foundation systematically shared by both, neither intersects in an appreciable measure with the other. Volume One (Chapters One and Two) deals with forms. In Chapter One, the author surveys the forms of Sifré to Numbers and identifies and classifies the formal patterns that govern throughout. Then, with the formal and propositional program of Sifré to Numbers as a base, in Chapter Two he does the same with Sifré Zutta to Numbers. Volume Two (Chapters Three through Five) deals with exegesis and systematic comparison of whole segments of documents. Chapters Three and Four describe and compare the exegetical patterns of the base-documents, with special reference to the utilization of the verses of Scripture as foci of coherent discourse. In Chapter Five, the author compares the treatment of Huqqat, that is, a single passage of Scripture read by the two commentaries respectively.

Produktdetails

• Studies in Judaism
• Verlag: University Press of America
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 355g
• ISBN-13: 9780761845218
• ISBN-10: 0761845216
• Artikelnr.: 26057247

Autorenporträt

Jacob Neusner is Research Professor of Religion and Theology at Bard College and Senior Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Theology at Bard. He has published more than 900 books and unnumbered articles, both scholarly and academic, popular and journalistic, and is the most published humanities scholar in the world. He has been awarded nine honorary degrees, including seven US and European honorary doctorates. He received his A.B. from Harvard College in 1953, his Ph.D. from Columbia University and Union Theological Seminary in 1961, and Rabbinical Ordination and the degree of Master of Hebrew Letters from the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in 1960. Neusner is editor of the 'Encyclopedia of Judaism' (Brill, 1999. I-III) and its Supplements; Chair of the Editorial Board of 'The Review of Rabbinic Judaism,' and Editor in Chief of 'The Brill Reference Library of Judaism', both published by E. J. Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands. He is editor of 'Studies in Judaism', University Press of America. Neusner resides with his wife in Rhinebeck, New York. They have a daughter, three sons and three daughters-in-law, six granddaughters and two grandsons.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Preface Part 2 Introduction Part 3 The Forms Sifré to Numbers Part 4
i. A Sample of Sifré to Numbers Part 5 ii. The Exegetical Form(s) Part 6
iii. Exegetical Form: citation of a base verse of the book of Numbers +
Gloss, the composition positioned by the narrative of Numbers Part 7 iv.
Exposition-form: Statement of a free-standing Proposition to the
articulation of which a verre of the Book of Numbers is integral Part 8 v.
Proposition Form: Declaration of a proposition with its proof-texts
deriving from diverse Verses of Scripture, the positioning of the
composition has no relationship to the order of verses in th book of
Numbers. Part 9 vi. Part 11 i. No Sample of Sifré Zutta to Numbers Part 12
ii. Exegetical Form: citation of a base verse of the book of Numbers +
Gloss, the composition positioned by the narrative of Numbers Part 13 iii.
Exposition-form: Statement of a free-standing Proposition to the
articulation of which a verre of the Book of Numbers is integral Part 14
iv. Proposition Form: Declaration of a proposition with its proof-texts
deriving from diverse Verses of Scripture, the positioning of the
composition has no relationship to the order of verses in th book of
Numbers. Part 15 v. The Forms of Sifré Zutta to Numbers. Comparison of
Forms.