Midrash and multiplicity
Subtitle: Pirke de-Rabbi Eliezer and the renewal of rabbinic interpretive culture
By: Steven Daniel Sacks.
Series: Studia Judaica, Forschungen zur Wissenschaft des Judentums -- Bd. 48
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Berlin; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9783110209228
Subjects: Pirkei de-Rabbi Eliezer -- Language, style; Pirkei de-Rabbi Eliezer -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: PRE and the history of rabbinic literature; title: Literary arrangement in PRE; title: Narrative and the phenomenon of lists; title: The context of thematic discourse; title: Analogy and bound themes in PRE; title: PRE and pseudepigraphy; title: R. Eliezer as author, pseudonym or archetype; title: Transmission and tradents in PRE; title: Appendix: Geonic Hebrew and pseudepigraphy; title: PRE and the language of scripture; title: Exegetical terminology in PRE; title: PRE's exegetical expansions; title: Appendix: Legal authority and scriptural innovation in PRE; title: PRE and the rabbinic tradition; title: Technical vocabulary in PRE; title: Quotation and resonance; title: Mythic clusters; title: Appendix: PRE, Ishmael and Islam; title: Conclusion.