Exodus in the Jewish experience
Subtitle: echoes and reverberations
By: edited by Pamela Barmash and W. David Nelson
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781498502924; 9781498502931
Subjects: Bibel; Rezeption; Jews; Bible; Identity; Criticism, interpretation; Identität; Judentum
Description: "[This book] investigates how the Exodus event has been, and continues to be, a crucial source of identity for both Jews and Judaism. It explores how the Exodus has functioned as the primary hermeneutical model from which Jews have created theological meaning and historical self-understanding"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : The Exodus : central, enduring, and generative / Pamela Barmash; title: Out of the mists of history : the exaltation of the Exodus in the Bible / Pamela Barmash; title: Discontinuity and dissonance : Torah, textuality, and early rabbinic hermeneutics of Exodus / W. David Nelson; title: The past as paradigm : enactments of the Exodus motif in Jewish liturgy / Richard S. Sarason; title: The impact of the Exodus on Halakhah (Jewish law) / Reuven Hammer; title: Passover and Thanatos in medieval Jewish consciousness / Kalman P. Bland; title: Observations on the biblical miniatures in Spanish Haggadot / Vivian B. Mann; title: From myth to memory : a study of German Jewish translations of Exodus 12-13:16 / Abigail E. Gillman; title: The desert comes to Zion : a narrative ends its wandering / Arieh Saposnik.