Access the full text.
Sign up today, get DeepDyve free for 14 days.
References for this paper are not available at this time. We will be adding them shortly, thank you for your patience.
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
Journal for the Study of Judaism – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2007
Read and print from thousands of top scholarly journals.
Already have an account? Log in
Bookmark this article. You can see your Bookmarks on your DeepDyve Library.
To save an article, log in first, or sign up for a DeepDyve account if you don’t already have one.
Copy and paste the desired citation format or use the link below to download a file formatted for EndNote
Access the full text.
Sign up today, get DeepDyve free for 14 days.
All DeepDyve websites use cookies to improve your online experience. They were placed on your computer when you launched this website. You can change your cookie settings through your browser.