Midrash and the exegetical mind
Subtitle: proceedings of the 2008 and 2009 SBL Midrash sessions
By: edited by Lieve Teugels, Rivka Ulmer
Contributors: Teugels, Lieve M.; Ulmer, Rivka; Society of Biblical Literature. Midrash Section
Series: Judaism in context -- 10; Judaism in context -- v. 10.
Publisher: Gorgias Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Piscataway, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
ISBN-13: 9781611436839
Subjects: History and criticism; Congresses; Midrash
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction --; title: 1. Rhapsody in blue: the origin of God's footstool in the Aramaic targumim and midrashic tradition  -- Rachel Adelman; title: 2. Biblical text in rabbinic context: the Book of Chronichles in the Mishnah, Talmud and Midrash  -- Isaac Kalimi; title: 3. Lessons for historiographers: managing the dynamics of indeterminacy in Song of Songs Rabbah  -- Simon Lasair; title: 4. The rabbinic knife: why and how the rabbis castrated Noah  -- Erica L. Martin; title: 5. The oral orthography of mishnaic and toseftan interpolation  -- W. David Nelson; title: 6. Derashah as performative exegesis in Tosefta and Mishnah  -- Nehemia Polen; title: 7. Sarah saw a hunter: the ventic motif in genesis rabbah 53:11  -- Jesse Rainbow; title: 8. Hyper-sexualization in the bavli: an initial survey -- Ishay Rosen-Zvi.