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Scripture and tradition : Rabbi Akiva and the triumph of Midrash
- Title
- Scripture and tradition : Rabbi Akiva and the triumph of Midrash / Azzan Yadin-Israel.
- Author
- Yadin-Israel, Azzan
- Publication
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2015]
- ©2015
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Details
- Description
- viii, 308 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "This is a book in rabbinics. It looks at the Rabbi Akiva school of interpetation with respect to Sifra, which comprises the midrashim on Leviticus"--
- Series Statement
- Divinations : rereading late ancient religion
- Uniform Title
- Divinations.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-298) and indexes.
- Language (note)
- Text in English.
- Contents
- Part I. A hermeneutic of camouflage. Chapter 1. The Sifra as Midrash: hermeneutic markedness -- Chapter 2. The Sifra as Midrash: vacuity and semantic discontinuity -- Chapter 3. Terminological identity and the hermeneutics of camouflage -- Chapter 4. "On the basis of this, they said" (mikan-amru) and the role of scripture -- Part II. The curious career of Rabbi Akiva. Chapter 5. Rabbi Akiva the interpreter: from the Mishnah to the Talmud -- Chapter 6. Rabbi Akiva, the anonymous Sifra, and the hermeneutics of camouflage -- Chapter 7. Rabbi Akiva's biographical transformation -- Part III. Midrash and halakhot: a reevaluation. Chapter 8. The anomaly of tannaitic literature: interpretation, revelation, and mysteries, excursus, oral tradition as the site of esotericism -- Chapter 9. Midrash and extra-scriptural tradition: a synchronic model -- Conclusion: Rabbi Akiva and the ironic triumph of Midrash.
- Call Number
- *PHO 15-94
- ISBN
- 9780812246438 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 0812246438 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2014015239
- OCLC
- 879329699
- Author
- Yadin-Israel, Azzan, author.
- Title
- Scripture and tradition : Rabbi Akiva and the triumph of Midrash / Azzan Yadin-Israel.
- Publisher
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2015]
- Copyright Date
- ©2015
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Divinations : rereading late ancient religionDivinations.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-298) and indexes.
- Language
- Text in English.
- Research Call Number
- *PHO 15-94