The Return of the Repressed: Pirqe de-Rabbi Eliezer and the Pseudepigrapha (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism): 140 - Hardcover

Adelman, Rachel

 
9789004170490: The Return of the Repressed: Pirqe de-Rabbi Eliezer and the Pseudepigrapha (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism): 140
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 9004170499 ISBN 13: 9789004170490
Publisher: Brill, 2009

Synopsis

Drawing on the shared mythic narratives of the Pseudepigrapha, Pirqe de-Rabbi Eliezer is understood as a revolutionary midrashic text, both in form and content, taking motifs from cosmogony and recapitulating them in a vision of the End of Days.

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About the Author

Rachel Adelman, (Ph.D. Hebrew University of Jerusalem 2008) was a post-doctoral fellow in Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto in 2007-2008. She now teaches Bible and Rabbinics at Miami University, Ohio, and also lectures widely abroad.

From the Back Cover

This book engages in a study of the mid-8th century midrashic text, Pirqe de-Rabbi Eliezer, including a classification of its genre, dating, and its status as apocalyptic eschatology. The author analyses several mythic narratives that were repressed in the rabbinic canon, but found in the Literature of the Second Temple period, only to resurface in this late midrash. Examples include the role of the Samael in the Garden of Eden, the myth of the Fallen Angels, Elijah as zealot, and Jonah as a Messianic figure. In addition, the relationship between myth and praxis is analyzed in terms of the etiological retelling of biblical stories. The book addresses what underlies the assumptions of classic rabbinic literature and later breaches of that exegetical tradition in PRE.

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Publisher
Brill
Publication date
2009
Language
English
ISBN 10 
9004170499
ISBN 13 
9789004170490
Binding
Leather Bound
Number of pages
368