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Exodus in the Jewish experience : echoes and reverberations

Title
Exodus in the Jewish experience : echoes and reverberations / edited by Pamela Barmash and W. David Nelson.
Publication
  • Lanham ; Boulder ; New York ; London : Lexington Books, [2015]
  • ©2015

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Additional Authors
  • Barmash, Pamela, 1966-
  • Nelson, W. David
Description
xiv, 256 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
"[This book] investigates how the Exodus event has been, and continues to be, a crucial source of identity for both Jews and Judaism. It explores how the Exodus has functioned as the primary hermeneutical model from which Jews have created theological meaning and historical self-understanding"--
Subject
  • Bible. > Criticism, interpretation, etc
  • Bible
  • Jews > Identity
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction : The Exodus : central, enduring, and generative / Pamela Barmash -- Out of the mists of history : the exaltation of the Exodus in the Bible / Pamela Barmash -- Discontinuity and dissonance : Torah, textuality, and early rabbinic hermeneutics of Exodus / W. David Nelson -- The past as paradigm : enactments of the Exodus motif in Jewish liturgy / Richard S. Sarason -- The impact of the Exodus on Halakhah (Jewish law) / Reuven Hammer -- Passover and Thanatos in medieval Jewish consciousness / Kalman P. Bland -- Observations on the biblical miniatures in Spanish Haggadot / Vivian B. Mann -- From myth to memory : a study of German Jewish translations of Exodus 12-13:16 / Abigail E. Gillman -- The desert comes to Zion : a narrative ends its wandering / Arieh Saposnik.
Call Number
*PYB 16-48
ISBN
  • 9781498502924
  • 149850292X
  • 9781498502931 (canceled/invalid)
  • 1498502938 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2015005822
OCLC
903812668
Title
Exodus in the Jewish experience : echoes and reverberations / edited by Pamela Barmash and W. David Nelson.
Publisher
Lanham ; Boulder ; New York ; London : Lexington Books, [2015]
Copyright Date
©2015
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Barmash, Pamela, 1966- editor.
Nelson, W. David, editor.
Research Call Number
*PYB 16-48
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