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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Midrash."”.
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The didactic utilization of the Bible and Midrash in the plays of Zalman Aaron Lison
… way of selection and utilization of Bible and Midrash as a didactic tool. It sets out the power of literature in general, and drama, as means to induce empathy and identification. This is followed by a detailed literary analysis of the plays with particular attention to the tracing of the …
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Faith's Late Procession: Poems
… University. The collection focuses on the use of Midrash as a means of approaching poetry, but the subject matter is not limited to working from biblical texts. The poems in this collection discuss the poet's ongoing struggle with faith; his father's gay identity; the difficulties of watching, as …
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Beyond the wire : Levinas vis-à-vis Villawood : a study of Emmanuel Levinas's philosophy as an ethical foundation for asylum seeker policy
… and intrapersonal experiences behind the wire. Midrashim developed through a framework of Emmanuel Levinas’s philosophy reveal dialogic relationships in the visitors yard of surveillance. When interpreted through the multiple layers of the researcher–author’s Midrashim, boundaries are collapsed, …
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Uncountry
… early written texts, such as the Hebrew Bible. Midrash is a further structural approach to move narratives beyond their own time-space limitations, their absences and silences, providing a manifold commentary on an original source text. Similarly to Susan Handelman’s comparison of Jabès’ work as …
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Kirous ja siunaus : Kainin merkki juutalaistulkintahistorian valossa
… arvovaltaisia rabbiinisia kirjoituksia, kuten midrash-kirjallisuutta ja targum-tekstejä. Nämä juutalaiset tekstit avaavat ja monipuolisesti täydentävät Kainin tarinaa tuoden esille eri aikakausina esitettyjä tulkintoja. Rabbiinisten tekstien lisäksi käytän hellenistijuutalaisen filosofin Filon …
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The redemptive function and theological meaning of Matthew's citation of Hosea 11:1
… citation. Is Matthew's citation an example of midrash or pesher , or is Matthew simply giving his readers the sensus plenior or sensus literalis reading of the text? Or, should we consider that his citation is a clear example of typology? Chapter 3 examines the significance of the exodus-event …
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A Queer Genealogy of "Havruta": Study Partnership as Intimate Relationship Between Men in Jewish Literature
… havruta intimacy in the Mishnah, Talmudim, and Midrash, along with their interpretive traditions, draw on biblical heroic couples and construct homoerotic intellectualism as a form of masculinity within ancient homosocial and patriarchal contexts. Jewish writers of the twentieth and twenty-first …
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What I meant to say about love : a poetic inquiry of un/authorized autobiography
… can be explored. In a broad understanding of midrash, as it is performed poetically, three years of an English teacher's life are recorded fictionally. James, the main character, discovers that love is a physically potent force that structures and deconstructs, just as it connects and …
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Sefer Tagin—Olde Face, Slab-Serifs and Semi-Ligatures. Covenantal warnings and reassurance. Re-housing the Temple within the Torah.
… related to that letter form. In effect, a visual midrash highlighting covenantal concerns after the destruction of the Second Temple. The themes presented by the instances are either positive (the promises and fulfilment of covenant through the generations, blessings, righteous behaviour, the …
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Judaizmus és közösségtörténet Kecskemét rabbijainak működése történetszociológiai aspektusból
… human quality was added to the king's name. The (Midrash) has a story explaining this quality. When a young prince is born, Archangel Gavriel descends to the child to carry out the will of the G-d Almighty, Creator of the World, and asks him what he would choose, if the choice was offered: might …
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Katapausis and Sabbatismos in Hebrews 4
… rest (Exod 35:2; 2 Macc 15:1). In Heb 3, a midrash on Ps 94, the rest the Exodus generation failed to enter was the Promised Land. The formal parallelism between the katapausis of Heb 4:6 and the sabbatismos of 4:9 suggests that sabbatismos is meant to define more precisely the character of …