TY - BOOK AU - Füzessy,Eszter Katalin AU - Gottlieb,Isaac AU - Phenix,Robert R. AU - Sacks,Steven D. AU - Smelik,Willem AU - Townsend,John T. AU - Ulmer,Rivka TI - Interpretation, Religion and Culture in Midrash and Beyond: Proceedings of the 2006 and 2007 SBL Midrash Sessions T2 - Judaism in Context SN - 9781593336196 U1 - 290 PY - 2008///] CY - Piscataway, NJ : PB - Gorgias Press, KW - RELIGION / Judaism / General KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; INTRODUCTION --; THE SERMONS ON JOSEPH OF BALAI OF QENNEŠRĪN (EARLY FIFTH CENTURY CE) AS A WITNESS TO THE TRANSMISSION HISTORY AND INTERPRETIVE DEVELOPMENT OF JOSEPH TRADITIONS --; THE FOUNDATION STONE: REFLECTIONS ON THE ADOPTION AND TRANSFORMATION OF ‘PRIMORDIAL MYTH’ IN RABBINIC LITERATURE --; “DIALOGUES BETWEEN SAGES AND OUTSIDERS TO THE TRADITION”: FORMAL CHANGES TO THE LITERARY COMPOSITION AS A METHOD OF RELIGIOUS POLEMICS IN RABBINIC LITERATURE --; THE EXTREMES OF ESTHER AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR MIDRASH --; THE DEMISE OF THE SCHOOL OF SHAMMAI AND THE FALL OF JERUSALEM --; SOME REMARKS ON THE EGYPTIAN LANGUAGE (COPTIC) IN RABBINIC TEXTS --; LANGUAGE SELECTION AND THE HOLY TONGUE IN EARLY RABBINIC LITERATURE; restricted access N2 - The third issue of Proceedings of the Midrash session at the SBL Annual meeting published in this series. This volume contains papers on religion in midrash (2006) and modes of biblical interpretation in rabbinic, Syriac and Islamic traditions (2007) UR - https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463215941 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781463215941 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781463215941/original ER -