Medieval Midrash - The House for Inspired Innovation

Medieval Midrash: The House for Inspired Innovation is the first treatment of this curious genre. Illuminating matters of historicity and origin with translations of six Solomon texts, Mehlman and Limmer address questions regarding Medieval Midrash and the need for creative religious expression.

About the author

Rabbi Bernard H. Mehlman, DHL (1973) Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati, is Senior Scholar of Temple Israel (Boston, MA) and Adjunct Professor of Midrash at Hebrew Union College, New York. His publications include: The Way of Man According to Hasidic Teaching (Jewish Lights Publishing, 2012); "Midrash Jonah," CCAR Journal (Spring 1977) and A Literary Analysis of Ma'aseh Avraham Avinu 'Alav Hashalom', The Annual of Rabbinic Judaism (Brill, Leiden, 1999).

Rabbi Seth M. Limmer, DHL (2009) Hebrew Union College, New York, is Senior Rabbi of Chicago Sinai Congregation. His publications include: Et and the Imahot: a Particle of Inclusion, On Kashrut and On God [forthcoming] for the Reform Movement's press.

Product details

• Authors: Seth M Limmer, Seth M. Limmer, Bernard H Mehlman, Bernard H. Mehlman
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.11.2016
• EAN: 9789004331327
• ISBN: 978-90-04-33132-7
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 236 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 431 g
• Series: Brill Reference Library of Jud
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism