Ulmer Egyptian Cultural Icons in Midrash

1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-3-11-022393-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 52, 411 Seiten

Reihe: Studia JudaicaISSN

Rabbinic midrash included Egyptian religious concepts. These textual images are compared to Egyptian culture. Midrash is analyzed from a cross-cultural perspective utilizing insights from the discipline of Egyptology. Egyptian textual icons in rabbinic texts are analyzed in their Egyptian context.
Rabbinic knowledge concerning Egypt included: Alexandrian teachers are mentioned in rabbinic texts; Rabbis traveled to Alexandria; Alexandrian Jews traveled to Israel; trade relations existed; Egyptian, as well as Roman and Byzantine, artifacts relating to Egypt.
Egyptian elements in the rabbinic discourse: the Nile inundation, the Greco-Roman Nile god, festivals, mummy portraits, funeral customs, language, Pharaohs, Cleopatra VII, magic, the gods Isis and Serapis. The hermeneutical role of Egyptian cultural icons in midrash is explored. Methods applied: comparative literature; semiotics; notions of time and space; the dialectical model of Theodor Adorno; theories of cultural identity by Jürgen Habermas; iconography (Mary Hamer); landscape theory; embodied fragments of memory (Jan Assmann).

Zielgruppe

Academics, Institutes, Libraries

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ulmer, Rivka

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums Geschichte des Judentums: Biblische & Klassische Periode

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Acknowledgements;6
2;Table of contents;8
3;Introduction: The Significance of Egypt in Rabbinic Texts;10
4;Chapter One: Pharaohs Shoshenq, Necho, and Apries;30
5;Chapter Two: The Nile;50
6;Chapter Three: Egyptian Festivals;90
7;Chapter Four: The Osiris Myth and Egyptian Magic;116
8;Chapter Five: History, the Roman Emperor and Egyptian Funeral Practices;152
9;Chapter Six: Alexandria;176
10;Chapter Seven: Cleopatra, Isis, and Serapis;224
11;Chapter Eight: The Egyptian Gods, Language, and Customs;254
12;Chapter Nine: The Divine Eye;282
13;Chapter Ten: The "Finding of Moses" in Art and Text;306
14;Figures;332
15;Copyright;334
16;Bibliography;336
17;Index;388
18;Plates;416

Über Autor(innen)

Rivka Ulmer, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, USA.