Azzan Yadin

Scripture as Logos

Rabbi Ishmael and the Origins of Midrash

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Presents a study of midrash - the biblical exegesis, parables, and anecdotes of the Rabbis. This work examines early, tannaitic legal midrash, focusing on the interpretive tradition associated with the figure of Rabbi Ishmael. It also locates the Rabbi Ishmael hermeneutic within the religious landscape of Second Temple and post-Temple literature.

Produktdetails

• Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion
• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juni 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 156mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 536g
• ISBN-13: 9780812237917
• ISBN-10: 0812237919
• Artikelnr.: 21187989

Autorenporträt

Azzan Yadin teaches in the Department of Jewish Studies at Rutgers University.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. Legal Midrash
Introduction. On the Hermeneutical Dimension of Midrash Halakhah
Chapter 1. Torah and Ha-Katuv
Chapter 2. Inaction and Attention
Chapter 3. Freedom and Restraint in Midrash Halakhah: Hermeneutical
Markedness
Chapter 4. The Role of Reader I
Chapter 5. The Role of Reader II: Middot
Chapter 6. Presponsive Torah
Chapter 7. Rabbi Ishmael and the Rabbis
Chapter 8. The Non-Rabbinic Landscape
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments