| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 287 pages) |
| Series |
Contraversions |
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Contraversions (Stanford, Calif.)
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| Contents |
THE STUDY OF FOLK ARRATIVES IN -- THE LITERARY CONTEXT OF FOLK ARRATIVES -- THE GENRE CONTEXT OF FOLK ARRATIVES -- THE COMPARATIVE CONTEXT OF FOLK ARRATIVES -- THE FOLKLORISTIC CONTEXT OF FOLK ARRATIVES -- THE SOCIAL CONTEXT OF FOLK ARRATIVES IN THE -- THE RELIGIOUS CONTEXT OF FOLK ARRATIVES -- THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT OF FOLK ARRATIVES -- EPILOGUE |
| Summary |
Web of Life weaves its suggestive interpretation of Jewish culture in the Palestine of late antiquity on the warp of a singular, breathtakingly tragic, and sublime rabbinic text, Lamentations Rabbah. The textual analyses that form the core of the book are informed by a range of theoretical paradigms rarely brought to bear on rabbinic literature: structural analysis of mythologies and folktales, performative approaches to textual production, feminist theory, psychoanalytical analysis of culture, cultural criticism, and folk narrative genre analysis. The concept of context as the hermeneutic basis for literary interpretation reactivates the written text and subverts the hierarchical structures with which it has been traditionally identified. This book reinterprets rabbinic culture as an arena of multiple dialogues that traverse traditional concepts of identity regarding gender, nation, religion, and territory. The author's approach is permeated by the idea that scholarly writing about ancient texts is invigorated by an existential hermeneutic rooted in the universality of human experience. She thus resorts to personal experience as an idiom of communication between author and reader and between human beings of our time and of the past. This research acknowledges the overlap of poetic and analytical language as well as the language of analysis and everyday life. In eliciting folk narrative discourses inside the rabbinic text, the book challenges traditional views about the social basis that engendered these texts. It suggests the subversive potential of the constitutive texts of Jewish culture from late antiquity to the present by pointing out the inherent multi-vocality of the text, adding to the conventionally acknowledged synagogue and academy the home, the marketplace, and other private and public socializing institutions |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-274) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Midrash rabbah. Lamentations -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
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Midrash rabbah. Lamentations fast |
| Subject |
Folklore in rabbinical literature.
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Folklore in rabbinical literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780804732260 |
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0804732264 |
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9780804732277 |
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0804732272 |
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0804764042 |
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9780804764049 |
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