The Midrashic Imagination - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Midrashic Imagination write by Michael Fishbane. This book was released on 2012-02-01. The Midrashic Imagination available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This innovative and original book examines the broad range of Jewish interpretation from antiquity through the medieval and renaissance periods. Its primary focus is on Midrash and midrashic creativity, including the entire range of nonlegal interpretations of the Bible. Considering Midrash as a literary and cultural form, the book explores aspects of classical Midrash from various angles including mythmaking and parables. The relationship between this exoteric mode and more esoteric forms in late antiquity is also examined. This work also focuses on some of the major genres of medieval biblical exegesis: plain sense, allegory, and mystical.
Midrash and Theory
Midrash and Theory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Midrash and Theory write by David Stern. This book was released on 1996. Midrash and Theory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Midrash and Theory, David Stern presents an approach to midrashic literature through the prism of contemporary theory. As midrash--the literature of classical Jewish Scriptural interpretation--has become the focus of new interest in contemporary literary circles, it has been invoked as a precursor of post-structuralist theory and criticism. At the same time, the midrashic imagination has undergone a revival in the larger Jewish community and shown itself capable of exercising a powerful influence and hold on a new type of contemporary Jewish writing. Stern examines this resurgence of fascination with ancient Jewish interpretation from the persepctive of the cultural relevance of midrash and its connection to its original historical and literary contexts.
The Exegetical Imagination
The Exegetical Imagination - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Exegetical Imagination write by Michael Fishbane. This book was released on 1998-10-30. The Exegetical Imagination available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Exegesis - interpretation and explanation of sacred texts - is the quintessence of rabinic thought. This volume delineates the connections between biblical interpretation and Jewish religious thought.
How Do We Know This?
How Do We Know This? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook How Do We Know This? write by Jay M. Harris. This book was released on 1995-01-01. How Do We Know This? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is a study of rabbinic legal interpretation (midrash) in Judaisms rabbinic, medieval, and modern periods. It shows how the rise of Reform, Conservative, and Orthodox Judaism in the modern period is tied to distinct attitudes toward the classical Jewish heritage, and specifically, toward rabbinic midrash halakah.
Movies and Midrash
Movies and Midrash - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Movies and Midrash write by Wendy I. Zierler. This book was released on 2017-08-15. Movies and Midrash available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Finalist for the 2017 National Jewish Book Award in Modern Jewish Thought and Experience presented by the Jewish Book Council Movies and Midrash uses cinema as a springboard to discuss central Jewish texts and matters of belief. A number of books have drawn on films to explicate Christian theology and belief, but Wendy I. Zierler is the first to do so from a Jewish perspective, exploring what Jewish tradition, text, and theology have to say about the lessons and themes arising from influential and compelling films. The book uses the method of "inverted midrash": while classical rabbinical midrash begins with exegesis of a verse and then introduces a mashal (parable) as a means of further explication, Zierler turns that process around, beginning with the culturally familiar cinematic parable and then analyzing related Jewish texts. Each chapter connects a secular film to a different central theme in classical Jewish sources or modern Jewish thought. Films covered include The Truman Show (truth), Memento (memory), Crimes and Misdemeanors (sin), Magnolia (confession and redemption), The Descendants (birthright), Forrest Gump (cleverness and simplicity), and The Hunger Games (creation of humanity in God's image), among others.
