From sermon to commentary : expounding the Bible in Talmudic Babylonia /

From sermon to commentary : expounding the Bible in Talmudic Babylonia /

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Author / Creator:Segal, Eliezer.
Imprint:Waterloo, Ont. : Published for the Canadian Corp. for Studies in Religion/Corporation canadienne des Sciences religieuses by Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2005.
Description:1 online resource (vii, 164 pages)
Language:English
Series:Studies in Christianity and Judaism = Études sur le christianisme et le judaïsme ; 17
Studies in Christianity and Judaism ; 17.
Subject:
Midrash -- History and criticism.
Bible. -- Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish.
Bible. -- Old Testament
Talmud
Aggada -- History and criticism.
Aggada
Midrash
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11140971
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Other authors / contributors:Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion.
ISBN:1423743032
9781423743033
9780889209114
0889209111
0889204829
9780889204829
1280280891
9781280280894
Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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Summary:The Bible has always been vital to Jewish religious life, and it has been expounded in diverse ways. Perhaps the most influential body of Jewish biblical interpretation is the Midrash that was produced by expositors during the first five centuries CE. Many such teachings are collected in the Babylonian Talmud, the monumental compendium of Jewish law and lore that was accepted as the definitive statement of Jewish oral tradition for subsequent generations. However, many of the Talmud's interpretations of biblical passages appear bizarre or pointless. From Sermon to Commentary: Expounding the Bible in Talmudic Babylonia tries to explain this phenomenon by carefully examining representative passages from a variety of methodological approaches, paying particular attention to comparisons with Midrash composed in the Land of Israel. Based on this investigation, Eliezer Segal argues that the Babylonian sages were utilising discourses that had originated in Israel as rhetorical sermons in which biblical interpretation was being employed in an imaginative, literary manner, usually based on the interplay between two or more texts from different books of the Bible.; Because they did not possess their own tradition of homiletical preaching, the Babylonian rabbis interpreted these comments without regard for their rhetorical conventions, as if they were exegetical commentaries, resulting in the distinctive, puzzling character of Babylonian Midrash.
Other form:Print version: Segal, Eliezer. From sermon to commentary. Waterloo, Ont. : Published for the Canadian Corp. for Studies in Religion/Corporation canadienne des Sciences religieuses by Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2005 0889204829

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