The book is concerned with a so called ethical midrash, Seder Eliyahu (also known as Tanna debe Eliyahu), a post-talmudic work probably composed in the ninth century. It provides a survey of the research on this late midrash followed by five studies of different aspects related to what is designated as the work’s narratology. These include a discussion of the problem of the apparent pseudo-epigraphy of the work and of the multiple voices of the text; a description of the various narrative types which the work, itself as a whole of non-narrative character, makes use of; a detailed treatment of Seder Eliyahu’s parables and most characteristic first person narratives (an extremely unusual form of narrative discourse in rabbinic literature); as well as a final chapter dedicated to selected women stories in this late midrash. As it emerges from the survey in chapter 1 such a narratologically informed study of Seder Eliyahu represents a new approach in the research on a work that is clearly the product of a time of transition in Jewish literature.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9783110529425
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-3-11-052942-5
- Verlag: De Gruyter
- Erscheinungstermin: 21.08.2018
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: 1. Auflage 2018
- Serie: ISSN
- Produktform: Gebunden, HC runder Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 627 g
- Seiten: 300
- Format (B x H x T): 160 x 236 x 23 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt