Midrash and Multiplicity: Pirke de-Rabbi Eliezer and the Renewal of Rabbinic Interpretive Culture

✍ Scribed by Steven Daniel Sacks

• Publisher: de Gruyter
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 192
• Series: Studia Judaica, 48; 48
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Pirke de-Rabbi Eliezer represents a late development in "midrash", or classical rabbinic interpretation, that has enlightened, intrigued and frustrated scholars of Jewish culture for the past two centuries. Midrash and Multiplicity addresses the problems raised by this equivocal work, and uses Pirke de-Rabbi Eliezer in order to assess the nature of "midrash", and the renewal of Jewish interpretive culture, during its transition to the medieval era.

✦ Table of Contents

Frontmatter
Table of Contents
PRE and the History of Rabbinic Interpretation
Literary Arrangement in PRE
PRE and Pseudepigraphy
PRE and the Language of Scripture
PRE and the Rabbinic Tradition
Conclusion
Backmatter