Genesis Rabbah in text and context / edited by Sarit Kattan Gribetz, David M. Grossberg, Martha Himmelfarb, Peter Schäfer.

• Introduction. Genesis Rabbah, a great beginning / Sarit Kattan Gribetz, David M. Grossberg -- The major manuscripts of Genesis Rabbah / Michael Sokoloff -- Between narrative and polemic : the Sabbath in Genesis Rabbah and the Babylonian Talmud / Sarit Kattan Gribetz -- Genesis Rabbah's Enoch / Peter Schäfer -- Into the workshop of the homilist : a comparison of Genesis Rabbah 33:1 and Leviticus Rabbah 27:1 / Chaim Milikowsky -- Abraham and the messianism of Genesis Rabbah / Martha Himmelfarb -- The family of Abraham in Genesis Rabbah / Carol Bakhos -- Origen's Commentary on Genesis as a key to Genesis Rabbah / Maren Niehoff -- Stage Mothers : performing the matriarchs in Genesis Rabbah and Yannai / Laura Lieber -- Composition and transmission of the exegetical narrative in Genesis Rabbah / Joshua Levinson -- On plane trees and the Palatine hill : Rabbi Yishmael and the Samaritan in Genesis Rabbah and the later Palestinian Rabbinic tradition / David M. Grossberg -- Peshat in Genesis Rabbah / Martin Lockshin -- The final chapters of Genesis Rabbah / Marc Hirshman.

• Genesis Rabbah, the earliest rabbinic commentary on the book of Genesis, was composed in Roman Palestine around the fifth century CE and continued to be studied throughout medieval and modern times. In this volume, an international team of scholars explores the literary formation and textual transmission of this work as well as the historical, cultural, religious, and political contexts in which it was composed. -- From back cover. 

Ämnesord

Rabbinsk judendom  (sao)

Midrash  (sao)

Rabbinical literature  -- History and criticism -- Congresses (LCSH)

Rabbinical literature ; Judaism  (LCSH)

Midrash  (LCSH)

Titel

Midrash rabbah. Genesis -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- Congresses

Klassifikation

BM517.M65 (LCC)

296.14 (DDC)

Cmdb.01 (kssb/8 (machine generated))