Current Trends in the Study of Midrash (2006 Bakhos), edited volume

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Current Trends in the Study of Midrash (2006) is a volume edited by Carol Bakhos.

Abstract

Editions and translations

Published in Leiden: Brill, 2006 (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism, 106).

Table of contents

  • The origins of midrash in the Second Temple period / Paul Mandel
  • Resistance to midrash? : midrash and halakhah in the halakhic midrashim / Azzan Tadin
  • Rewritten Bible and rabbinic midrash as commentary / Steven D. Fraade
  • Reflections on the practice of textual criticism in the study of midrash aggada: the legitimacy, the indispensability and the feasibility of recovering and presenting the (most) original text / Chaim Milikowsky
  • Midrash, Christian exegesis, and Hellenistic hermeneutics / Burton L. Visotzky
  • The use of midrash for social history / Richard Kalmin
  • Method(ological) matters in the study of midrash / Carol Bakhos
  • Literary approaches to midrash / Joshua Levinson
  • Rabbi Meir, the illuminated and the illuminating: interpreting experience / Galit Hasan-Rokem
  • The handmaid, the trickster and the birth of the messiah: a critical appraisal of the feminist valorization of midrash aggada / Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert
  • "She extinguished the light of the world": justifications for women's disabilities in Abot de-Rabbi Nathan B / Judith R. Baskin
  • De/re/constructing midrash / Daniel Boyarin

External links

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