The Midrashic imagination : Jewish exegesis, thought, and history /
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
©1993.
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Table of Contents:
- Midrash and the "midrashic condition" : preliminary considerations / Ithamar Gruenwald
- From Midrash to Mishnah : theological repercussions and further clarifications of "Chat'eu Yisrael" / David Weiss Halivni
- Midrashic versus other forms of Jewish hermeneutics : some comparative reflections / Moshe Idel
- "The Holy One sits and roars" : mythopoesis and the midrashic imagination / Michael Fishbane
- The Rabbinic parable and the narrative of interpretation / David Stern
- The nature and distribution of medieval compilatory commentaries in the light of Rabbi Joseph Kara's commentary on the Book of Job / Sara Japhet
- Maimonides on the covenant of circumcision and the unity of God / Josef Stern
- Beautiful maiden without eyes : Peshat and Sod in Zoharic hermeneutics / Elliot R. Wolfson
- Proverbs, figures, and riddles : the Dialogues of love as a Hebrew humanist composition / Arthur M. Lesley.
- (cont.) Can medieval storytelling help understanding Midrash? The story of Paltiel : a preliminary study on history and Midrash / Robert Bonfil
- History, story and collective memory : narrativity in early Ashkenazic culture / Ivan G. Marcus
- Sefer Yosippon : history and Midrash / Steven Bowman.