Discussing cultural influences
Subtitle: text, context, and non-text in Rabbinic Judaism
By: edited by Rivka Ulmer.
Contributors: Ulmer, Rivka.
Series: Studies in Judaism
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780761835165
Subjects: Rabbinical literature -- History and criticism.; Judaism -- History -- Talmudic period, 10-425 -- Historiograpy.; Judaism -- History.
Other titles: Text, context, and non-text in Rabbinic Judaism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Legal texts and codification in the Dead Sea Scrolls / Lawrence Schiffman; value: The term Midrash in Tannaitic literature / Mayer Gruber; value: Polemics and Rabbinic liturgy / Reuven Kimelman; value: Rabbinizing Jesus, Christianizing the Son of David : the Bavli's approach to the secondary Messiah traditions / Holger Zellentin; value: 'He in his cloak and she in her cloak' : conflicting images of sexuality in Sasanian Mesopotamia / Yaakov Elman; value: Rabbi Shimon Bar Yohai : literary motifs / Herbert Basser; value: Visions of Egypt in Midrash : the Nile as the landscape of the other / Rivka Ulmer.