Sustaining fictions
Subtitle: intertextuality, Midrash, translation, and the literary afterlife of the Bible
By: Lesleigh Cushing Stahlberg.
Series: The library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies -- #486; Playing the texts
Publisher: T & T Clark International; Bloomsbury T&T Clark
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780567027092
Subjects: Bible. -- O.T. -- Criticism, interpretation, etc; Bible. -- O.T. -- Translating; Bible as literature; Midrash -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Speaking the world into being; title: From Moses to Moses there is none like Moses; title: The three dimensions : approach, stance, and filter; title: The three paradigms : intertextuality, Midrash, and translation; title: Creation in the image; title: Reception history and literary afterlives; title: Talking about the literary afterlife of the Bible; title: The art of biblical retelling; title: According to the likeness; title: Literary criticism and the interrelationships of texts; title: Imitation; title: Invention; title: Influence; title: Intertextuality; title: Naming the animals; title: Intentiveness in retelling; title: Intentional interrelationships; title: Naming the animals; title: Hyptertexts generate hypertexts; title: Is it in heaven?; title: Midrash and literature; title: What is Midrash?; title: The two faces of Midrash : Halakhah and Aggadah; title: The nature of the Aggadah; title: The inner logic of Aggadic Midrash; title: What is the Midrash of the literary theorists?; title: Postmodern Midrash; title: Midrash and indeterminacy?; title: It is not in heaven : the problems with the Midrash; title: Of the literary; title: Theorists; title: What is modern Midrash?; title: The Jewish question; title: The word is very near; title: From Aggadah to Halakhah : co-opting the vocabulary of Midrash; title: The Middot : principles of rabbinic exegesis; title: Kal vahomer; title: Gezerah shavah; title: Binyan av mikatuv echad; title: Binyan av mishnei ktuvim; title: Clal ufrat; title: Ke-yotsei bo bim'kom aher; title: Davar halamed mi-inyano; title: The viability of co-opting anew the vocabulary of Midrash; title: Let us confound their language; title: The literary afterlife : where retelling and translation intersect; title: Theories and theoretical vocabularies of translation; title: The science of translation; title: Early translation studies; title: Polysystem theory; title: Deconstruction; title: The approach of the translator; title: Unto all languages that dwell in the earth; title: The stance of the translator; title: Translating the language of translation; title: Translation as cure; title: These are the words; title: What is the what; title: The language of approach; title: The language of stance; title: The language of filter.