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Rabbinic Literature: To See and See Again
- Amsterdam University Press
- Source: NTT Journal for Theology and the Study of Religion, Volume 78, Issue 3, Aug 2024, p. 147 - 168
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- 01 Aug 2024
Abstract
Abstract
The Literature of the Sages: A Re-visioning presents the major works of classical rabbinic Judaism as inter-related aggregates analyzed through three broad perspectives: intertextuality (the multi-directional relationships among and between rabbinic texts and non-rabbinic Jewish sources), east and west (the impact on rabbinic texts of the cultures of the Hellenistic, Roman, and Christian West and the Sasanian East), and halakhah and aggadah (the relationship of law and narrative in rabbinic sources). This article demonstrates the insights gained by mobilizing all three perspectives in the analysis of a single text—the story of R. Yehoshua ben Ḥanania in Bavli (further; b.) Bekhorot 8b–9a.
© Christine Hayes