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Rabbinic Parodies of Jewish and Christian Literature
Holger M. Zellentin
出版Mohr Siebeck, 2011
主題History / Ancient / GeneralLiterary Criticism / JewishReligion / Biblical Studies / GeneralReligion / Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / New TestamentReligion / Christianity / Literature & the ArtsReligion / Judaism / HistoryReligion / Judaism / TalmudReligion / Christian Theology / Christology
ISBN31615064729783161506475
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=nieShVaoXAIC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.