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Informationen zum Autor Dina Stein teaches in the department of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of Haifa. She is also the author of Maxims, Magic, and Myth: A Folkloristic Perspective of Pirkei deRabbi Eliezer. Klappentext Dina Stein teaches in the department of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of Haifa. She is also the author of Maxims! Magic! and Myth: A Folkloristic Perspective of Pirkei deRabbi Eliezer. Zusammenfassung In Textual Mirrors! Dina Stein draws on literary theory! folklore studies! and semiotics to closely examine midrashic tales in which self-reflexivity operates as a central element. Within these texts! rabbinic discourse itself becomes the object of reflection! both complicating and confirming its religious and ideological principles. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Chapter 1. Simon the Just and the Nazirite: Reflections of (Im)Possible Selves Chapter 2. A King, a Queen, and the Discourse Between: The Riddle of Midrash Chapter 3. The Blind Eye of the Beholder: Tall Tales, Travelogues, and Midrash Chapter 4. Being There: SeraÎ bat Asher, Magical Language, and Rabbinic Textual Interpretation Chapter 5. A Maidservant and Her Master's Voice: From Narcissism to Mimicry Epilogue: Midrash, Ruins, and Self-Reflexivity Appendix: bBava Batra 73a-75b Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
