From creation to redemption
Subtitle: progressive approaches to Midrash : proceedings of the Midrash Section, Society of Biblical Literature, volume 7
By: edited by W. David Nelson, Rivka Ulmer
Contributors: Nelson, W. David, editor; Ulmer, Rivka, editor
Series: Judaism in Context -- 20; Judaism in context -- v. 20.
Publisher: Gorgias Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 171
ISBN-13: 9781463207366
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Midrash; Congresses; History and criticism
Description: "This volume contains select papers presented in the sessions of the Midrash Section at the 2015 and 2016 annual meetings of the Society of Biblical Literature. The contributors of these chapters not only define and demarcate, but also employ and apply, methodological approaches to the study of midrash that range from fundamental and foundational to forward-thinking and progressive, e.g., traditional critical-historical approaches, literary, topical and atomistic approaches, comparative and theological approaches, and feminist approaches. The result is a volume distinguished by its simultaneous attention to the scholarly past, present, and future of the ever-emerging and unfolding field of study devoted to the biblical interpretation of the earliest rabbis"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.