Author: Eliezer SegalPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
The Babylonian Esther Midrash: Esther chapter 5 to end
Author: Eliezer SegalPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
The Babylonian Esther Midrash: To the beginning of Esther chapter 5
Author: Eliezer SegalPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
The Babylonian Esther Midrash: Esther chapter 5 to end
Author: Eliezer SegalThe Babylonian Esther Midrash: To the end of Esther chapter 1
Author: Eliezer SegalPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
CCAR Journal: The Reform Jewish Quarterly, Winter 2023
Author: Edwin GoldbergPublisher: CCAR Press
ISBN: 0881236330
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
This issue of the CCAR Journal considers the current state of the Reform rabbinate from the point of view of the rabbis themselves. The themed pieces include discussions related to well-being, success, and finding meaning in a rabbinic career. A variety of general articles, book reviews, and poems are also featured.
Beasts that Teach, Birds that Tell: Animal Language in Rabbinic and Classical Literatures
Author: Eliezer SegalPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1999043804
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
A study of rabbinic texts about talking animals, examined in the context of Greek and Roman cultures.
Esther in Ancient Jewish Thought
Author: Aaron KollerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107729807
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
The book of Esther was a conscious reaction to much of the conventional wisdom of its day, challenging beliefs regarding the Jerusalem Temple, the land of Israel, Jewish law, and even God. Aaron Koller identifies Esther as primarily a political work, and shows that early reactions ranged from ignoring the book to 'rewriting' Esther in order to correct its perceived flaws. But few biblical books have been read in such different ways, and the vast quantity of Esther-interpretation in rabbinic literature indicates a conscious effort by the Rabbis to present Esther as a story of faith and traditionalism, and bring it into the fold of the grand biblical narrative. Koller situates Esther, and its many interpretations, within the intellectual and political contexts of Ancient Judaism, and discusses its controversial themes. His innovative line of enquiry will be of great interest to students and scholars of Bible and Jewish studies.
God Laughed
Author: Hershey H. FriedmanPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351517171
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Humor has had a profound effect on the way the Jewish people see the world, and has sustained them through millennia of hardships and suffering. God Laughed reviews, organizes, and categorizes the humor of the ancient Jewish texts-the Hebrew Bible, the Talmud, and Midrash-in a clear, readable, and accessible manner. These works have influenced the Jewish people in many ways, and all are replete with humor and wit. Inevitably, this oeuvre of Jewish humor has itself influenced generations of comics, as well as genres of humor. The authors use examples of Biblical humor from several broad categories, including irony, sarcasm, wordplay, humorous names, humorous imagery, and humorous situations. Because their primary purpose is not to entertain, but to teach humanity how to live the ideal life, much of the humor in the Talmud and the Midrash has a single purpose: to demonstrate that evil is wrong and even, at times, ludicrous. This may help explain why approximately 1,500 years after its closing, the Talmud is still such a fascinating work.
The Two Targums of Esther
Author: Bernard GrossfeldPublisher: Liturgical Press
ISBN: 0814689523
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
What is called the Magillat Esther ("Scroll of Esther") is part of the biblical group of books in the Hagiographa known as the "Five Megillot," designating Esther, the Scrolls of Canticles, Ruth, Lamentations, and Ecclesiastes. These five scrolls play an integral part in Jewish liturgy next to the Pentateuch; and yet Esther (as well as others of these five) had difficulty being included in the Hebrew canon as sacred Scripture.
Reception History and Biblical Studies
Author: Emma EnglandPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0567660109
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
How do we begin to carry out such a vast task-the examination of three millennia of diverse uses and influences of the biblical texts? Where can the interested scholar find information on methods and techniques applicable to the many and varied ways in which these have happened? Through a series of examples of reception history practitioners at work and of their reflections this volume sets the agenda for biblical reception, as it begins to chart the near-infinite series of complex interpretive 'events' that have been generated by the journey of the biblical texts down through the centuries. The chapters consider aspects as diverse as political and economic factors, cultural location, the discipline of Biblical Studies, and the impact of scholarly preconceptions, upon reception history. Topics covered include biblical figures and concepts, contemporary music, paintings, children's Bibles, and interpreters as diverse as Calvin, Lenin, and Nick Cave.