| Description |
xv, 336 pages ; 22 cm |
| Note |
English and Hebrew. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
Prologue: From scripture to Torah: The problematic of Midrash -- Part One: From system to selection: The Mishnah and scripture -- 1. Defining the Torah in the aftermath of the Mishnah: Program, detail, and exegesis -- The program of the Mishnah in relationship to scripture -- A passage of the Mishnah independent of scripture -- A passage of the Mishnah dependent upon scripture -- Topic and proposition: The uses of scripture in the Mishnah -- Exegesis and imitation -- The authority of scripture in the Mishnah -- Biblical interpretation and theological imagination: Toward the working of Midrash as exegesis of detail. |
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Part Two: Midrash as exegesis: (1) Interpretation as exegesis yielding proposition -- 2. Sifra and Sifre to Numbers -- The documents -- Sifra -- Sifre to Numbers -- The issue -- Way of life, biblical interpretation, and theological order: The primacy of scriptural authority in the exegesis of Israel's sanctification. |
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Part Three: Midrash as exegesis: (2) Interpretation as proposition yielding exegesis -- 3. Genesis Rabbah -- The document -- A sample -- The issue -- 4. Leviticus Rabbah -- The document -- A sample -- The issue -- 5. Pesiqta deRab Kahana -- The document -- A sample -- The issue -- World view, Bible interpretation, and theological imagination: The primacy of scriptural paradigms in the exegesis of Israel's salvation. |
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Part Four: Midrash and narrative: Interpretation as story -- 6. The fathers according to Rabbi Nathan -- The document -- Narrative and Midrash: (1) Creation -- Narrative and Midrash: (2) Moses and Israel -- Narrative, but not Midrash: The sage -- The medium and the message. |
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Part Five: The workings of Midrash -- 7. The world of Rabbinic Bible interpretation -- Scripture and the organization of thought -- Organizing proposition around verses of scripture: The Yerushalmi -- Organizing discourse around verses of scripture: The Bavli -- 8. Midrash and us: Four contemporary issues -- Theology, culture, and Midrash -- Is Judaism a "biblical religion"? -- Were the Rabbis joking? -- History and Midrash: The authority of scripture, the freedom of interpretation, and the continuity of culture -- Reason and revelation: our place in God's plan. |
| Summary |
An introduction to the workings of rabbinic interpretation of the Bible prepared by a foremost scholar of the rabbinic period. The book describes Midrash in the various schools of classical Jewish thought. |
| Subject |
Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish.
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Midrash -- History and criticism.
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Bible. Old Testament. (OCoLC)fst01808092
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Multi-faith.
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Midrasj.
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Midrasch (DE-588)4133700-1
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Einführung (DE-588)4151278-9
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Midrash. (OCoLC)fst01020601
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Neusner, Jacob, 1932- Invitation to Midrash. San Francisco : Harper & Row, ©1989 (OCoLC)657632524 |
| ISBN |
0060661070 |
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9780060661076 |
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