Tales of the Neighborhood
Subtitle: Jewish Narrative Dialogues in Late Antiquity
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: February 6, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9780520234536
Subjects: Jewish studies; Judaism; Sacred texts; Religion; Jews; Galilee; Sociology; Rabbinical literature; Literature: Folklore/Mythology; Judaism - General; Anthropology - General; Folklore & Mythology; Social Science / Jewish Studies; Folklore; History and criticism; Israel; Legends, Jewish
First sentence: This short book seeks to explore the ways in which we can learn something about the relationship between literature and reality in Late Antique Jewish cultured by reading the texts that we call Rabbinic literature, the Talmud and the Midrash.
Description: "Galit Hasan-Rokem shows that religion is shaped not only in the halls of theological disputation and institutions of divine study, but also by the ordinary events of everyday life. Common aspects of human relations were a major source of symbols for the religious texts and rituals of Late Antique Judaism, as well as for those of its partner in narrative dialogues, early Christianity, Hasan-Rokem argues.

Focusing on the "neighborhood" of the Galilee, where many major religious and cultural developments originated, this book brings to life the riddles, parables, and folktales passed down in Rabbinic stories from the first half of the first millennium of the Common Era."--BOOK JACKET.