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Continuity and Change in Hellenistic Jewish Exegesis and in Early Rabbinic Literature

Continuity and Change in Hellenistic Jewish Exegesis and in Early Rabbinic Literature CONTINUITY AND CHANGE IN HELLENISTIC JEWISH EXEGESIS AND IN EARLY RABBINIC LITERATURE Arkady Kovelman Moscow State University I have written to him many things of my law, but they were counted as strange things. Hosea 8:12 Many things of Jewish literature look strange if not alien. What is there in common between Jerusalem and Alexandria, Cordova and Odessa, New York and Warsaw? These were the cities in which Jewish literature is said to have fl ourished. As di ff erent as these places are, can we speak about “a” Jewish literature? Should we not speak instead of many Jewish literatures, in fl uenced by the many di ff erent cultures and languages in which they were created? 1 Of course, one can ignore cultural di ff erences and “cite biblical and Talmudic mate- rials on the same topic in the supposition that the latter fl ow natu- rally and without mediation from the former.” 2 But doing this is a mistake. Rather than disregard diversity, one should recognize it as a result of literary revolutions’ interrupting periods of smooth cul- tural development. The notion of literary revolution includes the collapse of old gen- res and the birth of http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Review of Rabbinic Judaism Brill

Continuity and Change in Hellenistic Jewish Exegesis and in Early Rabbinic Literature

Kovelman, Arkady
Review of Rabbinic Judaism , Volume 7 (1-2): 123 – Jan 1, 2004
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© 2004 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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CONTINUITY AND CHANGE IN HELLENISTIC JEWISH EXEGESIS AND IN EARLY RABBINIC LITERATURE Arkady Kovelman Moscow State University I have written to him many things of my law, but they were counted as strange things. Hosea 8:12 Many things of Jewish literature look strange if not alien. What is there in common between Jerusalem and Alexandria, Cordova and Odessa, New York and Warsaw? These were the cities in which Jewish literature is said to have fl ourished. As di ff erent as these places are, can we speak about “a” Jewish literature? Should we not speak instead of many Jewish literatures, in fl uenced by the many di ff erent cultures and languages in which they were created? 1 Of course, one can ignore cultural di ff erences and “cite biblical and Talmudic mate- rials on the same topic in the supposition that the latter fl ow natu- rally and without mediation from the former.” 2 But doing this is a mistake. Rather than disregard diversity, one should recognize it as a result of literary revolutions’ interrupting periods of smooth cul- tural development. The notion of literary revolution includes the collapse of old gen- res and the birth of

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