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Rabbinic Parodies of Jewish and Christian Literature

[Hardback]

by Holger Michael Zellentin

    • Author

      Holger Michael Zellentin

    • Book Format

      Hardcover

    • Publisher

      Mohr Siebeck

    • Published

      December 2011

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      Rabbinic Parodies of Jewish and Christian Literature

      Today's Price £125.39

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      Product Description

      Holger M. Zellentin seeks to probe how far the classical rabbis took their literary playfulness in order to advance their religious and societal causes. Building on the literary approaches to rabbinic Judaism of the past decades, this work considers the rabbis' attitudes towards their Byzantine and Sassanian surroundings. The author examines how the Talmud and Midrash in Palestine and Persia repeat previous texts with comical difference, oscillating between reverence and satire. The result shows rabbinic society and its literature engaging in the great debates of their times, commenting on issues such as pedagogy, abstinence, dream interpretation, inheritance law, ritual purity, and Christian triumphalism and asceticism. In constant conversation with the Bible, the rabbis reveal themselves as capable of critically reinventing the Jewish tradition, as well as of playfully engaging a few Gospel passages favoured by their Christian interlocutors. Rabbinic parodies cast deviant insiders as tantamount to outsiders and explore the limits of acculturation within the Jewish tradition - in the Talmud, even parody itself comes under parodic scrutiny.

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      • Author

        Holger Michael Zellentin

      • Book Format

        Hardcover

      • Publisher

        Mohr Siebeck

      • Published

        December 2011

      • Weight

        573g

      • Dimensions

        16.8 x 25.5 x 1.5 cm

      • ISBN

        9783161506475

      • ISBN-10

        3161506472

      • Eden Code

        4930385

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      • Author/Creator: Holger Michael Zellentin

      • ISBN: 9783161506475

      • Publisher: Mohr Siebeck

      • Release Date: December 2011

      • Weight: 573g

      • Dimensions: 16.8 x 25.5 x 1.5 cm

      • Eden Code: 4930385

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