A Mirror of Rabbinic Hermeneutics: Studies in Religion, Magic, and Language Theory in Ancient Judaism 3110368374, 9783110368376

Rabbinic hermeneutics in ancient Judaism reflects this multifaceted world of the text and of reality, seen as a world of

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A Mirror of Rabbinic Hermeneutics: Studies in Religion, Magic, and Language Theory in Ancient Judaism
3110368374, 9783110368376

How the rabbis of late antiquity used time to define the boundaries of Jewish identity The rabbinic corpus begins with

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This volume explores aspects of ancient magic and religion in the ancient Mediterranean, specifically ways in which reli

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After World War II, Ernst Ludwig Ehrlich (1921-2007) published works in English and German by eminent Israeli scholars,

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Since the late 1980s sociologists have been drawing our attention to an international surge in the public visibility of

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The Jewish exegete and philosopher Philo of Alexandria (ca. 15 BCE - ca. 50 CE) has left behind by far the largest survi

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The canonical documents of Rabbinic Judaism impose upon most of their components fixed patterns of rhetoric, recurrent l

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In The Love of Neighbour in Ancient Judaism, Kengo Akiyama traces the development of the mainstay of early Jewish and Ch

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Judaism is often described as a religion that tolerates, even celebrates arguments with God. In Pious Irreverence, Dov W

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Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.-- University of Pennsylvania)

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This collection brings together the research papers of Patrick Olivelle, published over a period of about ten years. The

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