Reimagining the Bible The Storytelling of the Rabbis

Name: Reimagining the Bible The Storytelling of the Rabbis
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ISBN: 9780195115116

ISBN-10: 0195115112

ISBN-13: 9780195115116

Edition: 1997

Authors: Howard Schwartz

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Reimagining the Bible collects a dozen essays by Howard Schwartz. Together the essays present a coherent theory of the way in which each successive phase of Jewish literature has drawn upon and reimagined the previous ones. The book is organized into four sections: The Ancient Models; The Folk Tradition; Mythic Echoes; Modern Jewish Literature and the Ancient Models. Within these divisions, each of the essays focuses on a specific genre, ranging from Torah and Aggadah to Kabbalah, fairy tales, and the modern Yiddish stories of S.Y. Agnon and Isaac Bashevis Singer. Arguing the important thesis that there is a continuity in Jewish literature which extends from the Biblical era to our own…

Book details

List price: $53.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/15/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments



The Ancient Models



Reimagining the Bible



The Aggadic Tradition



Tools of Interpretation



The Folk Tradition



On Jewish Fairy Tales



Mermaid and Siren: The Polar Roles of Lilith and Eve



Jewish Tales of the Supernatural



Mythic Echoes



The Mythology of Judaism



Tables of the Great Jewish Mystics



The Quest for the Lost Princess: Transition and Change in Jewish Lore



Modern Jewish Literature and the Ancient Models



Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav: Forerunner of Modern Jewish Literature



S. Y. Agnon, I. L. Peretz, and I. B. Singer: Modern Masters of the Aggadah



Modern Jewish Literature and the Ancient Models


Notes


Glossary


Bibliography


Index