Exodus in the Jewish Experience

Echoes and Reverberations
Herausgeber: Barmash, Pamela; Nelson, W. David

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Produktbeschreibung

Exodus in the Jewish Experience: Echoes and Reverberations investigates how the Exodus has been, and continues to be, a crucial source of identity for both Jews and Judaism. It explores how the Exodus has functioned as the primary hermeneutical model from which Jews have created theological meaning and historical self-understanding.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 596g
• ISBN-13: 9781498502924
• ISBN-10: 149850292X
• Artikelnr.: 42284188

Autorenporträt

Pamela Barmash is associate professor of Hebrew Bible and Biblical Hebrew at Washington University in St. Louis. W. David Nelson is chair of the Department of Religion and Ethics at Groton School.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Exodus: Central, Enduring, and Generative, Pamela Barmash
Chapter 1: Out of the Mists of History: The Exaltation of the Exodus in the
Bible, Pamela Barmash
Chapter 2: Discontinuity and Dissonance: Torah, Textuality, and Early
Rabbinic Hermeneutics of Exodus, W. David Nelson
Chapter 3: The Past as Paradigm: Enactments of the Exodus Motif in Jewish
Liturgy, Richard S. Sarason
Chapter 4: The Impact of the Exodus on Halakhah (Jewish Law), Reuven Hammer
Chapter 5: Passover and Thanatos in Medieval Jewish Consciousness, Kalman
P. Bland
Chapter 6: Observations on the Biblical Miniatures in Spanish Haggadot,
Vivian B. Mann
Chapter 7: From Myth to Memory: German Jewish Translations of Exodus 12-13,
Abigail E. Gillman
Chapter 8: The Desert Comes to Zion: A Narrative Ends its Wandering, Arieh
Saposnik