Scripture As Logos : Rabbi Ishmael and the Origins of Midrash [1 ed.] 9780812204124, 9780812237917

The study of midrash--the biblical exegesis, parables, and anecdotes of the Rabbis--has enjoyed a renaissance in recent

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Scripture As Logos : Rabbi Ishmael and the Origins of Midrash [1 ed.]
9780812204124, 9780812237917

The study of midrash—the biblical exegesis, parables, and anecdotes of the Rabbis—has enjoyed a renaissance in recent ye

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Analyzing the layers of interpretation in the Sifra and the transformation of Rabbi Akiva's portrayal in rabbinic l

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Pirke de-Rabbi Eliezer represents a late development in "midrash", or classical rabbinic interpretation, that

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Is Catholicism inherently Anti-Semitic? Do the Hebrew Scriptures accurately predict Jesus of Nazareth as the Messiah? Ho

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Proceedings Of The 2008 And 2009 Sbl Midrash Sessions

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“Scripture is a spring of life-giving, life-altering truth, but when we don’t understand how and why it came to us, we e

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From Publishers Weekly Quinn ( Dreamer ) won the Turner Tomorrow Award's half-million-dollar first prize for this f

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Contained in this volume are the Proceedings of the Midrash session of the SBL's annual conferences in 2008 and 200

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This work consists of a selection of papers from sessions during the first two years of SBL Consultation on Midrash. It

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What happens when two prolific religious scholars sit down and, together, read sacred texts of their different religions

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