Intertextuality and the Reading of Midrash

✍ Scribed by Daniel Boyarin

• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 175
• Series: Indiana studies in biblical literature
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Proceeding by means of intensive readings of passages from the early midrash on Exodus The Mekilta, Boyarin proposes a new theory of midrash that rests in part on an understanding of the heterogeneity of the biblical text and the constraining force of rabbinic ideology on the production of midrash. In a forceful combination of theory and reading, Boyarin raises profound questions concerning the interplay between history, ideology, and interpretation.

✦ Table of Contents

Intertextuality and the Reading of Midrash......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgments......Page 8
Introduction......Page 9
Note on the Translations......Page 14
Reading Heinemann's Darkhe ha'aggadah......Page 15
Toward a New Theory of Midrash......Page 25
The Plan of the Book......Page 33
Between Literature and Hermeneutics......Page 36
Paradigmatic and Syntagmatic Citation......Page 40
3 Textual Heterogeneity in the Torah and the Dialectic of the Mekilta: The Midrash vs. Source Criti.........Page 53
Gap-Filling and Midrashic Indeterminacy......Page 55
Reading the Repetition......Page 63
Summary......Page 70
4 Dual Signs, Ambiguity, and the Dialectic of Intertextual Readings......Page 71
Verbal Ambiguity, the Dual Sign, and the Double Reading......Page 72
Voices in the Text......Page 85
5 Interpreting in Ordinary Language: The Mashal as Intertext......Page 94
6 The Sea Resists: Midrash and the (Psycho) Dynamics of Intertextuality......Page 107
7 The Song Of Songs, Lock Or Key: The Holy Song As A Mashal......Page 119
8 Between Intertextuality and History: The Martyrdom of Rabbi Akiva......Page 131
Epilogue......Page 142
Introduction......Page 144
1. Toward a New Theory of Midrash......Page 145
2. Reciting the Torah......Page 149
3. Textual Heterogeneity in the Torah and the Dialectic of the Mekilta......Page 153
4. Dual Signs, Ambiguity, and the Dialectic of Intertextual Readings......Page 156
5. Interpreting in Ordinary Language......Page 163
6. The Sea Resists......Page 164
7. The Song of Songs, Lock or Key......Page 168
8. Between Intertexuality and History......Page 170
F......Page 173
P......Page 174
Y......Page 175