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Author Boyarin, Daniel.

Title Sparks of the logos : essays in rabbinic hermeneutics / by Daniel Boyarin
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (x, 302 pages)
Series The Brill reference library of Judaism, 1566-1237 ; v. 11
Brill reference library of Judaism ; v. 11.
Contents Midrashic studies. The eye in the Torah: ocular desire in midrashic hermeneutic ; "This we know to be the carnal Israel": circumcision and the erotic life of God and Israel ; Placing reading: ancient Israel and Medieval Europe ; Take the Bible for example: midrash as literary theory ; The bartered word: Midrash and symbolic economy. -- Diacritical marks. The politics of biblical narratology: reading the Bible like/as a woman ; The subversion of the Jews: Moses's veil and the hermeneutics of supersession ; Épater l'embourgeoisement: Freud, gender, and the (de)colonized psyche ; The Talmud meets church history
Summary This work covers the typological relation of rabbinic Judaism to Christianity, and provides a re-examination, by going back to the roots, of a rabbinic Judaism that would not manifest some of the deleterious social ideologies and practices that modern orthodox Judaism generally does
Analysis Humaniora Religionsvidenskab
Humaniora Jødisk kultur og historie
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-292) and indexes
Notes Print version record
SUBJECT Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85013771
Bible. Old Testament -- Hermeneutics
Midrash -- History and criticism
Bible. Old Testament fast
Bibel Altes Testament gnd
Subject Human body -- Religious aspects -- Judaism.
Christianity and other religions -- Judaism.
Judaism -- Relations -- Christianity.
Midrash -- History and criticism
RELIGION -- Judaism -- Talmud.
Christianity
Hermeneutics
Human body -- Religious aspects -- Judaism
Interfaith relations
Judaism
Midrash
Midrasch
Hermeneutik
Rabbijnse literatuur.
Midrasj.
Hermeneutiek.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1423712099
9781423712091
9047401638
9789047401636
9789004126282
9004126287