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Review of Articles Review of Articles AJS Review 30,2 (2006), 325-345 Devora Steinmetz, Beyond the Verse: Midrash Aggadah as Interpretation of Biblical Narrative (Against the view that midrash addresses the biblical text only atomistically, S. insists on the larger reading of the biblical narrative that underlies and shapes midrashic interpretation even when the midrash takes the form of a comment on an individual word in the biblical text. A good example of this approach is Midrash Tanhuma Bereshit 11 on Gen 4:23 how Lamech kills both Cain and his own son Tubal-Cain. James Kugel has inter- preted this midrash as answering a series of local exegetical problems. For S. these local problems are indeed answered in the midrash, but at the same time it is based on the larger context of the biblical narrative from Adam to Noah; it answers questions derived from a broad reading of the biblical text and its literary phenom- ena and integrates the answers to local problems within its larger concerns); 347-392 Jenny R . Labendz, Th e Book of Ben Sira in Rabbinic Literature (Not all rabbinic sources about Ben Sira can be treated as a single unit. Th e early Palestinian rabbis cite its http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal for the Study of Judaism Brill

Review of Articles

Journal for the Study of Judaism , Volume 38 (2): 272 – Jan 1, 2007

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Brill
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© 2007 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0047-2212
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1570-0631
DOI
10.1163/157006307X180219
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Abstract

Review of Articles AJS Review 30,2 (2006), 325-345 Devora Steinmetz, Beyond the Verse: Midrash Aggadah as Interpretation of Biblical Narrative (Against the view that midrash addresses the biblical text only atomistically, S. insists on the larger reading of the biblical narrative that underlies and shapes midrashic interpretation even when the midrash takes the form of a comment on an individual word in the biblical text. A good example of this approach is Midrash Tanhuma Bereshit 11 on Gen 4:23 how Lamech kills both Cain and his own son Tubal-Cain. James Kugel has inter- preted this midrash as answering a series of local exegetical problems. For S. these local problems are indeed answered in the midrash, but at the same time it is based on the larger context of the biblical narrative from Adam to Noah; it answers questions derived from a broad reading of the biblical text and its literary phenom- ena and integrates the answers to local problems within its larger concerns); 347-392 Jenny R . Labendz, Th e Book of Ben Sira in Rabbinic Literature (Not all rabbinic sources about Ben Sira can be treated as a single unit. Th e early Palestinian rabbis cite its

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