The Return of the Repressed: Pirqe De-Rabbi Eliezer and the Pseudepigrapha Tapa dura - 2009
de Rachel Adelman
Descripción de contraportada
This book engages in a study of the mid-8th century midrashic text, Pirqe de-Rabbi Eliezer, including a classification of its genre, dating, and its status as apocalyptic eschatology. The author analyses several mythic narratives that were repressed in the rabbinic canon, but found in the Literature of the Second Temple period, only to resurface in this late midrash. Examples include the role of the Samael in the Garden of Eden, the myth of the Fallen Angels, Elijah as zealot, and Jonah as a Messianic figure. In addition, the relationship between myth and praxis is analyzed in terms of the etiological retelling of biblical stories. The book addresses what underlies the assumptions of classic rabbinic literature and later breaches of that exegetical tradition in PRE.
Detalles
- Título The Return of the Repressed: Pirqe De-Rabbi Eliezer and the Pseudepigrapha
- Autor Rachel Adelman
- Encuadernación Tapa dura
- Páginas 368
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial Brill
- Fecha de publicación 2009-10
- ISBN 9789004170490 / 9004170499
- Peso 1.65 libras (0.75 kg)
- Dimensiones 9.7 x 6.5 x 1 pulgadas (24.64 x 16.51 x 2.54 cm)
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Temas
- Interdisciplinary Studies: Jewish Studies
- Religious Orientation: Jewish
- Library of Congress subjects Rabbinical literature - History and criticism
- Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 2009030000
- Dewey Decimal Code 296.14
