Studies in the Tanhuma-Yelammedenu Literature

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-46918-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 70, 368 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 762 g

Reihe: The Brill Reference Library of Judaism

Tanhuma-Yelammedenu Literature enables a rare and unique look into the Jewish society of late antiquity and the early Byzantine period, especially the interaction between the beit-midrash and the synagogue cultures. This little-studied corpus is the focus of the present volume, in which various authors study historical, philological, cultural or linguistic aspects of this literature. The result is a body of work dedicated to this important corpus, and is a first step into giving it its proper place in Jewish Studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nikolsky, Ronit

Atzmon, Arnon

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Heilige & Traditionstexte: Torah, Talmud, Mischna, Halacha

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Arnon Atzmon and Ronit Nikolsky

1 Let Our Rabbi Teach Us: An Introduction to Tanhuma-Yelammedenu Literature

Ronit Nikolsky and Arnon Atzmon

Part 1: Bibliographical Survey

2 A Bibliographical Survey of Tanhuma-Yelammedenu Research: Past, Present, and Future

Marc Bregman

Part 2: Textual Findings

3 Tanhuma as a Textual Martyr: On the Reception of Tanhuma Literature in Literary and Documentary Genizah Sources

Moshe Lavee

4 The Transmission of Midrash Tanhuma in Ashkenaz as Reflected in Binding Fragments from Germany

Andreas Lehnardt

Part 3: Language and Terminology

5 The Language of the Tanhuma-Yelammedenu Literature: The State of Research

Yehonatan Wormser

6 “Rabbi Tanhuma Said”: A Code Phrase for the Quotation from Tanhuma-Yelammedenu Literature

Gila Vachman

Part 4: Sources and Parallels

7 Pesikta in the Tanhuma: The Case of Pericope Shekalim

Arnon Atzmon

8 A Tanhumaic Tradition on a Hasmonean King: Between Tannaitic Sources and the Babylonian Talmud

Tal Ilan

Part 5: Adjacent and Later Literatures

9 The Affinity between the Lost Midrash Yelammedenu and Midrash Vayekhulu

Amos Geula

10 The Provenance of Aggadat Bereshit: A Reassessment of the Origins of the Work as a “Tanhuma Satellite”

Lieve Teugels

11 Tanhuma in Masquerade: Discovering the Tanhuma in the Latter Midrash Rabbah Texts

Shalem Yahalom

Part 6: Cultural Context

12 Dramatic Dialogues in the Tanhuma-Yelammedenu Midrashim

Dov Weiss

13 Meshalim on Election and Power: Two Examples in Tanhuma Buber

Eric Ottenheijm

14 Joseph, Judah, and the Study of Emotions in Tanhuma-Yelammedenu Literature

Ronit Nikolsky

Part 7: Textual Witnesses

15 Survey of Textual Witnesses of the Tanhuma-Yelammedenu Literature

Arnon Atzmon

Bibliography

Index of Biblical Sources

Index of Tanhuma-Yelammedenu Literature

Index of Sources

Index of Modern Scholars

General Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ronit Nikolsky, Ph.D. (2004), The Hebrew University, is a senior lecturer in Middle Eastern Studies and Culture and Cognition at the University of Groningen. She has published numerous articles on various aspects of rabbinic culture, and edited various volumes dedicated to Jewish culture and cognition.

Arnon Atzmon, Ph.D. (2006), Bar-Ilan University, is a senior lecturer of Talmud and Midrash Studies at that university. He has published two books and many articles on rabbinic literature, including A Critical Edition of Midrash Esther Rabbah (with Prof. Joseph Tabory; Midrash Project of the Schechter Institute, 2014) and "My Children, Read this Passage Every Year": Composition and Meaning in Pesikta De-Rav Kahana (Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 2021).