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. Print version record.
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

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments; Introduction: Aggadic Midrash in Babylonia; 1 A Chamber on the Wall; 2 A Holy Man of God; 3 Two Faces; 4 Daughters of Zion; 5 Cave of Machpelah; 6 Amraphel and Nimrod; 7 A New King; 8 The Fish; 9 Sevenfold; 10 "From India Even unto Ethiopia"; 11 Ahasuerus, a Clever King or a Stupid King?; 12 "The Court of the Garden ... "; 13 Treasure Cities; 14 Pithom and Raamses; 15 Shiphrah and Puah; 16 Coats of Skins; 17 To Do His Business; 18 Orpah and Harafah; 19 Shobach and Shophach; 20 Elishah and the Children; 21 Staff or Goblet; 22 King and Commoner; 23 Ezekiel's Cry
24 Mahlon and Chilion25 His Eldest Son; 26 Achan and Zimri; 27 Ham and Noah; 28 Sennacherib, Clever or Stupid?; 29 Copper Precious as Gold; 30 Non-Babylonian Examples; Conclusions; Works Cited; Indexes

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

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