Reimagining the Bible: The Storytelling of the RabbisOxford University Press, 15 de jan. de 1998 - 304 páginas Reimagining the Bible collects a dozen essays by Howard Schwartz. Together the essays present a coherent theory of the way in which each successive phase of Jewish literature has drawn upon and reimagined the previous ones. The book is organized into four sections: The Ancient Models; The Folk Tradition; Mythic Echoes; Modern Jewish Literature and the Ancient Models. Within these divisions, each of the essays focuses on a specific genre, ranging from Torah and Aggadah to Kabbalah, fairy tales, and the modern Yiddish stories of S.Y. Agnon and Isaac Bashevis Singer. Arguing the important thesis that there is a continuity in Jewish literature which extends from the Biblical era to our own times, over a period of more than 3,000 years, this collection also serves as a guide to the history of that literature, and to the genres it comprises. |
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... Torah . Thus were these biblical stories embellished , taking on a life of their own . With a natural desire to know more about their heroes , and an over- whelming impulse to resolve all the problems in the biblical text , the an ...
... Torah . Thus were these biblical stories embellished , taking on a life of their own . With a natural desire to know more about their heroes , and an over- whelming impulse to resolve all the problems in the biblical text , the an ...
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... Torah , but in the white letters of the hidden Torah as well . Remarkably , the desire to explicate every hidden truth in the Torah gave birth to a rich legendary tradition , revealed in fragments scattered through every period of ...
... Torah , but in the white letters of the hidden Torah as well . Remarkably , the desire to explicate every hidden truth in the Torah gave birth to a rich legendary tradition , revealed in fragments scattered through every period of ...
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... Torah — the first five books of the Bible— had been dictated by God to Moses on Mount Sinai , that every word and letter of the Torah — even the crowns of the letters — were meaningful , and that the Torah contained all truth . On the ...
... Torah — the first five books of the Bible— had been dictated by God to Moses on Mount Sinai , that every word and letter of the Torah — even the crowns of the letters — were meaningful , and that the Torah contained all truth . On the ...
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... Torah . Finally , after three years in Paradise , Isaac's soul returns to this world and he comes back to life , having been resurrected : 4 " When the blade touched his neck , the soul of Isaac fled and departed , but when he heard ...
... Torah . Finally , after three years in Paradise , Isaac's soul returns to this world and he comes back to life , having been resurrected : 4 " When the blade touched his neck , the soul of Isaac fled and departed , but when he heard ...
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... Torah , is not only the covenant between the people of Israel and God , but it is also the source of the primary myths of the culture and the bedrock for all commen- tary , both in the halakhic , or legal , realm , and in the aggadic ...
... Torah , is not only the covenant between the people of Israel and God , but it is also the source of the primary myths of the culture and the bedrock for all commen- tary , both in the halakhic , or legal , realm , and in the aggadic ...
Conteúdo
The Folk Tradition | 41 |
Mythic Echoes | 83 |
Modern Jewish Literature and the Ancient Models | 161 |
Notes | 203 |
Glossary | 231 |
Bibliography | 237 |
Index | 273 |
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