Sustain me with raisin-cakes : Pesikta deRav Kahana and the popularization of rabbinic Judaism /
History and literature come together in a new way in this study of the midrashic collection Pesikta deRav Kahana. The book combines the findings of rabbinic historians and early Christianity scholars with a close reading of this midrashic text on its own and in relation to the tannaitic midrashim wh...
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Multiple
English
Hebrew
Aramaic
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2009.
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Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism
133.
Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2009, ISBN: 9789004222724.
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Call Number: BM517.P36 A55 2009
| Summary: | History and literature come together in a new way in this study of the midrashic collection Pesikta deRav Kahana. The book combines the findings of rabbinic historians and early Christianity scholars with a close reading of this midrashic text on its own and in relation to the tannaitic midrashim which preceded it. The rich picture that emerges suggests that PRK, in its new homiletical and aggadic stance, develops a religious language more appealing and accessible to the masses, an outreach language meant to win rabbinic popularity. Exploring issues of power and rhetoric, the book also places PRK's outreach language into the cultural context of the imperialism of Roman Christian homily. |
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| Item Description: | Revision of author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Pennsylvania, 2004 under title: Rabbinic preachers and their audiences in the Amoraic midrashim Pesikta derav Kahana and Leviticus rabbah. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-214) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9789047442288 |
| Access: | Available to subscribing member institutions only. |