"It's better to hear the rebuke of the wise than the song of fools" (Qoh 7:5)
Subtitle: proceedings of the Midrash Section, Society of Biblical Literature, volume 6
By: edited by W. David Nelson ; edited by Rivka Ulmer
Contributors: Nelson, W. David, editor; Ulmer, Rivka, editor
Series: Judaism in context -- volume 18; Judaism in context -- volume 18.
Publisher: Gorgias Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Piscataway, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9781463205607
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: History and criticism; Congresses; Midrash
Description: "This volume contains selected proceedings of the Midrash Section sessions convened during the 2012-2014 meetings of the Society of Biblical Literature. It is comprised of contributions by leading and emerging scholars that share a common focus on Rabbinic biblical interpretation as it intersects with a range of biblical texts and associated fields of study, including: Jewish legal literature; Hellenistic Judaism; post-biblical interpretation; biblical commentary; liturgical studies; and, cultural studies. The contributions explore how the study of Midrash illuminates and informs an array of topics, such as: race and slavery in antiquity; myth and theology in biblical tradition; reason and rationalism in the Hebrew Bible; inner-biblical interpretation; and, literary and form analysis"--
Table of contents: title: Ancient Jewish and Christian exegeses of the 'Curse of Ham': divergent strategies against the background of ancient views on slavery; title: Jacob's double: a reduplicative confabulation of post-biblical literature; title: The Holy of Holies or the holiest? Rabbi Akiva's characterization of the Song of Songs in Mishnah Yadayim 3:5; title: The spirit among the sages: Seder Olam, the end of prophecy and sagely illumination; title: Blessed be He, who remembered the earlier deeds and overlooks the later; title: benedictions, and liturgy in the new rhetoric garb of late Midrashic traditions; title: The role of small forms in Pirqei de Rabbi Eliezer; title: Inner-Biblical exegesis in Rashbam's commentary on Qohelet.