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1 online resource |
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Divinations : rereading late ancient religion |
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Divinations.
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| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- 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: Serah. 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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Analysis |
Cultural Studies |
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Jewish Studies |
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Literature |
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Religion |
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Religious Studies |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
In English |
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Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Midrash
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| Subject |
Rabbinical literature -- History and criticism
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Self-consciousness (Awareness) -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.
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Reflection (Philosophy) -- Religious aspects -- Judaism
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Authority -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.
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Rabbis -- Office.
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RELIGION -- Judaism -- History.
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Self-consciousness (Awareness) -- Religious aspects -- Judaism
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Authority -- Religious aspects -- Judaism
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Rabbinical literature
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Rabbis -- Office
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780812206944 |
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0812206940 |
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