The oral and the textual in Jewish tradition and Jewish education
By: editor, Jonathan Cohen ; co-editors, Matt Goldish and Barry Holtz
Contributors: Merkaz le-ḥinukh Yehudi ba-tefutsot ʻal shem Yehoshuʻa Mendel Melṭon
Series: Studies in Jewish education / Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Melton Centre for Jewish Education -- 15; ʻIyunim ba-ḥinukh ha-Yehudi -- 15.
Publisher: Hebrew University, Magnes Press
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Jerusalem
Language: eng; heb
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9789657008232; 9789657008249
Copyright date: 2019
Subjects: Jews; Education; History; Tradition (Judaism); Oral tradition; Education in rabbinical literature; Jewish religious education
Description: "The articles in this volume originated, in large part, as papers presented at a conference convened by the Melton Coalition for Creative Interaction in December 2014 at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The Melton Coalition is a consortium of the three Melton Centers established over the years by the visionary philanthropist Samuel Mendel Melton: at the Jewish Theological Seminary, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Ohio State University. The conference was devoted to the various forms of interaction that obtain between the oral and the textual modes of discourse in Jewish history and contemporary Jewish life. Some of the essays dwell on oral and textual media in historical context - while others place more emphasis on the contemporary educational implications of the phenomena under discussion. All the essays in this volume articulate patterns of oral and written discourse that can greatly enrich our knowledge of both the history of Jewish culture and the theory and practice of Jewish education" -- back cover.
Notes: "The articles in this volume originated, in large part, as papers presented at a conference convened by the Melton Coalition for Creative Interaction in December 2014 at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The Melton Coalition is a consortium of the three Melton Centers established over the years by the visionary philanthropist Samuel Mendel Melton: at the Jewish Theological Seminary, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Ohio State University. The conference was devoted to the various forms of interaction that obtain between the oral and the textual modes of discourse in Jewish history and contemporary Jewish life. Some of the essays dwell on oral and textual media in historical context - while others place more emphasis on the contemporary educational implications of the phenomena under discussion. All the essays in this volume articulate patterns of oral and written discourse that can greatly enrich our knowledge of both the history of Jewish culture and the theory and practice of Jewish education"--Back cover.

Includes bibliographical references.

Contributions chiefly in English with some Hebrew.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Jonathan Cohen; title: Rabbinic texts : history and education. Silence, speech and song : religious education in late antiquity / Marc Hirshman; title: The Merqolis and the Tannaitic coding of non-Jewish ritual / Avram Shannon; title: Listening to texts, reading people : recovering the interpersonal experience in Talmud education / Joshua Gutoff; title: From the Middle Ages to today - and back again. From "religious truth-seeking" to reading : the twelfth century renaissance and the emergence of Peshat and Ad Litteram as methods of accessing the Bible / Robert A. Harris; title: This too shall pass : the afterlife of a proverb / Amy Shuman and Amanda Randhawa; title: The oral, the written and the performed in Safed / Matt Goldish; title: Traditionalists at the onset of modernity : listening and reading. Prolegomenon to an exegetical-spiritual pedagogy for the study of Sfat Emet's homilies : the case of 'self-trust' / Elie Holzer; title: Wounds, kisses, and Torah studies : gender issues in the stories of Rabbi Joseph Ḥayyim of Baghdad / David Rotman; title: Modern Jewish thinkers : educational implications. Restoring the oral dimension of the text - subliminal dialogue in Genesis 23 : Buber and Rosenzweig meet Abraham and Efron / Jonathan Cohen; title: Jewish education as interpretation : David Hartman and reconstructing the beit midrash / Ari Ackerman; title: Contemporary oral interchange on traditional Jewish texts. Making the written text oral by collaborating in argumentation : towards detecting chavruta processes among ultra-Orthodox learners / Reuven Ben-Chaim, Zvi Bekerman and Baruch Schwarz.