Exodus in the Jewish Experience - Echoes and Reverberations

Informationen zum Autor Edited by Pamela Barmash and W. David Nelson - Contributions by Pamela Barmash; Kalman P. Bland; Abigail E. Gillman; Reuven Hammer; Vivian B. Mann; W. David Nelson; Richard S. Sarason and Arieh Saposnik Klappentext Exodus in the Jewish Experience: Echoes and Reverberations investigates how the Exodus 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. Zusammenfassung Exodus in the Jewish Experience: Echoes and Reverberations investigates how the Exodus 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: The Exodus: Central, Enduring, and Generative, Pamela BarmashChapter 1: Out of the Mists of History: The Exaltation of the Exodus in the Bible, Pamela BarmashChapter 2: Discontinuity and Dissonance: Torah, Textuality, and Early Rabbinic Hermeneutics of Exodus, W. David NelsonChapter 3: The Past as Paradigm: Enactments of the Exodus Motif in Jewish Liturgy, Richard S. SarasonChapter 4: The Impact of the Exodus on Halakhah (Jewish Law), Reuven HammerChapter 5: Passover and Thanatos in Medieval Jewish Consciousness, Kalman P. BlandChapter 6: Observations on the Biblical Miniatures in Spanish Haggadot, Vivian B. MannChapter 7: From Myth to Memory: German Jewish Translations of Exodus 12-13, Abigail E. GillmanChapter 8: The Desert Comes to Zion: A Narrative Ends its Wandering, Arieh Saposnik

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• Authors: Pamela Nelson Barmash, W. David Barmash Nelson
• Assisted by: Pamela Barmash (Editor), Barmash Pamela (Editor), W David Nelson (Editor), W. David Nelson (Editor), Nelson W. David (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.05.2015
• EAN: 9781498502924
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-0292-4
• No. of pages: 270
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; RELIGION / Judaism / General, RELIGION / Christianity / General, RELIGION / Biblical Studies / General, Christianity, Judaism, Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts, Biblical Studies & Exegesis