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The book is concerned with a so called ethical midrash, Seder Eliyahu (also known as Tanna debe Eliyahu), a post-talmudic work probably composed in the ninth century.
It provides a survey of the research on this late midrash followed by five studies of different aspects related to what is designated as the work's narratology.
These include a discussion of the problem of the apparent pseudo-epigraphy of the work and of the multiple voices of the text; a description of the various narrative types which the work, itself as a whole of non-narrative character, makes use of; a detailed treatment of Seder Eliyahu's parables and most characteristic first person narratives (an extremely unusual form of narrative discourse in rabbinic literature); as well as a final chapter dedicated to selected women stories in this late midrash.
As it emerges from the survey in chapter 1 such a narratologically informed study of Seder Eliyahu represents a new approach in the research on a work that is clearly the product of a time of transition in Jewish literature.
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- Publisher:De Gruyter
- Publication Date:21/08/2018
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Pages:315 pages
- Publisher:De Gruyter
- Publication Date:21/08/2018
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- ISBN:9783110531879
