Intertextuality and the Reading of Midrash (Indiana Studies in Biblical Literature)
Price 42.55 USD
EAN/UPC/ISBN Code
9780253312518, 9780253312518
Brand
Indiana University Press
Author
D Boyarin
Pages
176
Year of production
1990
Proceeding by means of intensive readings of passages from the early midrash on Exodus The Mekilta, Boyarin proposes a new theory of midrash that rests in part on an understanding of the heterogeneity of the biblical text and the constraining force of rabbinic ideology on the production of midrash. In a forceful combination of theory and reading, Boyarin raises profound questions concerning the interplay between history, ideology, and interpretation.