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Radwin, Ariella Michal. "Adultery and the marriage metaphor rabbinic readings of Sotah /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1383469791&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Willis, David Ronald. "The Qumran Scrolls and the Gospel of Matthew a study in their use of the historical context of scripture /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1989. http://www.tren.com.
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Stanley, Steven Kenneth. "The use of the OT in the church age a comparison of the interpretation of the OT in first century Jewish literature and the book of Hebrews /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1990. http://www.tren.com.
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Houlding, Brent S. "Midrash and the Magi pericope." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1992. http://www.tren.com.
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Lorenzo, Lorenzo Elias. "Poetic and rabbinical responses in "Consolacam as Tribulacoens de Israel"." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2005. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3204292.
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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, 2005.Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-01, Section: A, page: 0202. Advisers: Sabrina Karpa-Wilson; Juan Carlos Conde. "Title from dissertation home page (viewed Dec. 12, 2006)."
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Ravel, Edeet. "Rabbinic exegesis of Deuteronomy 32:47 : the case for Midrash." Thesis, McGill University, 1985. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=61263.
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This thesis examines Rabbinic traditions regarding midrashic techniques, the authority of midrashic teachings and the purpose of midrashic activities. These traditions are investigated through an exhaustive analysis of Rabbinic exegesis of Deuteronomy 32:47. The Rabbis interpreted the initial clause of this verse ("for it is no empty thing for you") as referring to midrash and employed the verse to support a wide range of assertions about midrashic procedures. The techniques validated by the verse are interpretation of particles according to the hermeneutical principle of limitation and extension and narrative expansions that embellish biblical events. The idea of the Sinaitic authority of Rabbinic teachings is another aspect of midrash that finds expression through exegesis of Deuteronomy 32:47. Finally, the verse occurs in association with the concept of reward for derash. A study of the motives and attitudes that lay behind Rabbinic teachings will contribute to our understanding of midrashic literature.
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Pearl, Gina. "Adam's garments, the staff, the altar and other biblical objects in innovative contexts in rabbinic literature." Thesis, McGill University, 1988. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=61269.
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In the Bible certain objects appear in association with an individual character or characters and in particular narrative events. Rabbinic exegesis places these objects in new and innovative contexts. That is, the Rabbinic exegetes speak of the object's origin, history and fate: the circumstances under which the object was created, how it came into the possession of a Biblical character, its destiny, and, in some cases, its role in the Messianic era. This thesis examines Rabbinic interpretations of eight Biblical objects: Adam's garments, Abraham's ram, Solomon's throne, the staffs, asses, altars and wells used by various characters, and a divine fire. This is the first collection of the numerous parallel sources that deal with each of these objects. The traditions regarding these objects illustrate the Rabbis' concern with unity and continuity: different Biblical characters and events are linked together by means of the objects. The Rabbinic idea of the transmission of Biblical objects parallels the Rabbis' view of their own literature as having been transmitted through the generations.
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Moore, Scott Ronald. "Affinities of the Epistle of James with synagogue homily and midrash." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2007. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p090-0348.
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Anisfeld, Rachel A. "Sustain me with raisin-cakes : Pesikta deRav Kahana and the popularization of rabbinic Judaism /." Leiden : Brill, 2009. http://opac.nebis.ch/cgi-bin/showAbstract.pl?u20=9789004153226.
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Mason, Steven D. "The Jewish concept of fruit a study in the Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha, and Dead Sea scrolls /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2002. http://www.tren.com.
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Sherman, Miriam. "A well in search of an owner using novel assertions to assess Miriam's disproportionate elaboration among women in the Midrashim of late antiquity /." Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2006. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3251376.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2006.Title from first page of PDF file (viewed September 19, 2006). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references.
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Bohmeier, Ute. "Exegetische Methodik in Pirke de-Rabbi Elieser, Kapitel 1-24 : nach der Edition Venedig 1544, unter Berücksichtigung der Edition Warschau 1852 /." Frankfurt am Main : Lang, 2008. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=016752422&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.
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Maloney, Leslie Don. "The significance of Jerusalem in the Gospel of Luke." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1989. http://www.tren.com.
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Landmesser, Cornelia. "Der hebräische und aramäische Hintergrund der synoptischen Evangelien ein Forschungsbericht zur sprachlichen und religiös-kulturellen Situation in der Umwelt Jesu /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2002. http://www.tren.com.
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Lai, Kenny K. "Adam in Romans 5:12-21 in relation to early Judaism." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2001. http://www.tren.com.
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Mauer, Harry Joel. "The history of Rabbinic attitudes toward Abraham ibn Ezra's Bible commentaries /." Thesis, McGill University, 1993. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=69620.
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Lee, Jongkyung. "'They will attach themselves to the house of Jacob' : a redactional study of the oracles concerning the nations in the Book of Isaiah 13-23." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:8dbe03b1-c4ca-404f-b1e8-a4a0b5bd55c7.
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The present study argues that a series of programmatic additions were made to the oracles concerning the nations in Isa 13-23 during the late-exilic period by the same circle of writers who were responsible for Isa 40-55. These additions were made to create continuity between the ancient oracles against the nations from the Isaiah tradition and the future fate of the same nations as the late-exilic redactor(s) foresaw. The additions portray a two-sided vision concerning the nations. One group of passages (14:1-2; 14:32b; 16:1-4a; 18:7) depicts a positive turn for certain nations while the other group of passages (14:26-27; 19:16-17; 23:8-9, 11) continues to pronounce doom against the remaining nations. This double-sided vision is set out first in Isa 14 surrounding the famous taunt against the fallen tyrant. 14:1-2, before the taunt, paints the broad picture of the future return of the exiles and the attachment of the gentiles to the people of Israel. After the taunt and other sayings of YHWH against his enemies, 14:26-27 extends the sphere of the underlying theme of 14:4b-25a, namely YHWH's judgement against boastful and tyrannical power(s), to all nations and the whole earth. The two sides of this vision are then applied accordingly to the rest of the oracles concerning nations in chs 13-23. To the nations that have experienced similar disasters as the people of Israel, words of hope in line with 14:1-2 were given. To the nations that still possessed some prominence and reasons to be proud, words of doom in line with 14:26-27 were decreed. Only later in the post-exilic period, for whatever reason, be it changed international political climate or further spread of the Jewish diaspora, was the inclusive vision of 14:1-2 extended even to the nations that were not so favourably viewed by our late-exilic redactor (19:18-25; 23:15-18).
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Lorek, Piotr. "The motif of exile in the Hebrew Bible : an analysis of a basic literary and theological pattern." Thesis, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.683320.
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Ravel, Edeet. "The application of biblical laws to women by the Rabbis of the Tannaitic period." Thesis, McGill University, 1992. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=39322.
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In Hebrew, as in English, the masculine form takes precedence over the feminine, and consequently many masculine terms can serve both generic and sex-specific functions. Almost all biblical laws, whether formulated in the imperative or in the third person, appear in singular or plural masculine form, and therefore present a major difficulty in terms of gender interpretation. The position of women in the legal covenant is thus rendered highly ambiguous.The tannaitic sages, Jewish biblical exegetes of the first post-Christian centuries, were acutely aware of the problem and wrote numerous midrashim which interpreted ambiguous terms of gender in the biblical legal corpus. They determined the extent to which the various gender references referred to women.
These interpretations have been almost totally neglected in modern biblical and rabbinic scholarship, and are here collated and carefully analyzed for the first time. It is shown that though the sages operated within an ideological framework, their exegetical procedures played a major role in their legislation.
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Eloff, Mervyn. "From the exile to the Christ : exile, restoration and the interpretation of Matthew's gospel." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/52854.
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Thesis (DTh)--Stellenbosch University, 2002ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The aim of this thesis is to demonstrate by critical interaction with four key areas of Matthean research that 'restoration from exile' provides a valid and valuable hermeneutical prism for the interpretation of Matthew's gospel. The investigation is undertaken from a Reformed and Evangelical perspective and an inclusive approach is adopted with regard to hermeneutics, viz that interpretation should take note of the historical and literary and theological aspects of Matthew's gospel. The four key areas of investigation were chosen because they involve both particular texts and the gospel as a whole and are, respectively, Matthew's genealogy, Matthew's concept of Salvation History, the Plot of Matthew's gospel and Matthew's Use of the Old Testament. Each of these areas has already received extensive attention in Matthean scholarship, though in each case the question of'restoration from exile' has been almost entirely neglected. In each area, a brief critical survey of current scholarship is provided, both in terms of content and methodology. This survey is then followed by a discussion ofthe relevant texts and topics, demonstrating both the presence and the hermeneutical importance of the 'restoration from exile' theme. In this way, the thesis thus shows that 'restoration from exile' does indeed provide a valid though not exclusive, hermeneutical prism for the interpretation of Matthew's gospel and that such an interpretation casts fresh light on both familiar and more troublesome texts and topics of investigation. The final section of the thesis comprises a brief survey of the theme of 'restoration from exile' within the Hebrew Scriptures and a representative selection of early Jewish texts. On the basis of this survey, the conclusion is reached that despite the very real diversity within early Judaism, it is possible to conclude that perhaps the majority of Jews of the Second Temple Period saw themselves as still 'in exile', at least in theological and spiritual terms. This in turn suggests that Matthew's presentation of Jesus as the one, who by his death and resurrection brings the exile to an end, both for Israel and for the human race at large, is designed to meet a very real spiritual and theological need. Furthermore, the pervasive interest in 'restoration from exile' within representative texts from Second Temple Judaism, and Matthew's clear interest in this same theme, further support claims for the Jewish-Christian setting of Matthew 's gospel and its dual function of legitimization for the Matthean communities and evangelistic appeal to outsiders.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die proefskrif beoog om deur middel van kritiese wisselwerking met vier sleutelgebiede van navorsing met betrekking tot die Matteusevangelie aan te toon dat 'terugkeer uit ballingskap' 'n geldige en waardevolle hermeneutiese prisma bied vir die verklaring van die Matteusevangelie. Die ondersoek word vanuit 'n Gereformeerde en Evangeliese standpunt onderneem. Daar word 'n inklusiewe hermeneutiese benadering gevolg, d. w.s. die historiese, literere en teologiese aspekte van die Matteusevangelie word in ag geneem. Die vier sleutelgebiede van ondersoek is gekies vanwee hulle verb and met spesifieke teksverse en die Matteusevangelie as geheel. Die sleutelgebiede is, onderskeidelik, die geslagsregister in Matteus I: 1-17, Matteus se konsep van heilsgeskiedenis, die plot van die Matteusevangelie en Matteus se gebruik van die Ou Testament. Elkeen van hierdie gebiede is in die verlede al breedvoerig deur geleerdes ondersoek, maar die tema van 'terugkeer uit ballingskap' is in elkeen van hierdie areas feitlik totaal verontagsaam. 'n Verkorte opsomming en bespreking van die hooftrekke van die bydraes van geleerdes word vir elk van die vier gebiede gegee, beide met betrekking tot inhoud en metodiek. Dit word gevolg deur 'n uitleg van sleutelverse en relevante temas om beide die teenwoordigheid en die belang van die 'terugkeer uit ballingskap' tema aan te toon. Op die wyse word daar in die proefskrifbewys dat 'terugkeer uit ballingskap' wei 'n geldige en waardevolle, dog nie die enigste nie, hermeneutiese prisma vir die uitleg van die Matteusevangelie verskaf. Dit is ook duidelik dat so 'n uitleg van Matteus wei nuwe lig op sowel bekende as minder bekende en moeiliker teksverse en temas gooi. Laastens word daar ondersoek gedoen na die belangstelling al dan nie in die tema 'terugkeer uit ballingskap' in die Ou Testament en 'n verteenwoordigende seleksie vroee Joodse geskrifte. Daar word aangetoon dat ondanks die verskeidenheid van wereldsienings onder die verskillende Joodse groepe, daar tog 'n algemene beskouing onder die meeste Jode van daardie periode was dat hulle steeds, ten minste in 'n geestelike en teologiese sin, 'in ballingskap' verkeer. Teen hierdie agtergrond is Matteus se voorstelling van Jesus as die Een wat die ballingskap vir Israel en die mensdom tot 'n einde bring van uiterste belang. So 'n belangstelling in 'terugkeer uit ballingskap' versterk ook verder die siening dat Matteus sy evangelie vir Joodse Christene geskryf het en dat Matteus se geskrif beide 'n legitimerings- en evangeliseringsfunksie vervul.
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Amann, Flora. "Sourds et muets entre savoir et fiction au tournant des Lumières." Thesis, Sorbonne université, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/24630.
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Au carrefour de l’histoire des idées linguistiques et de l’histoire des représentations,
cette thèse étudie les discours savants et fictionnels sur la surdité au tournant des Lumières.
Cette période correspond à des changements qui ont affecté le cours de l’histoire des sourds en
France et la façon dont ils étaient perçus. L’apparition d’un discours spécialisé sur la surdité, la
création d’institutions consacrées à l’éducation collective des sourds et l’élaboration d’un
langage gestuel destiné à leur alphabétisation, marquent les débuts de l’insertion des sourds
dans la société. Pédagogues et philosophes ne sont pas les seuls à débattre de la surdité ; les
sourds et leur éducation passionnent aussi les romanciers et les auteurs de fictions courtes. Le
roman sentimental s’approprie le personnage muet et son langage gestuel, parfois en le
dissociant de la surdité. Ce n’est pas tant la surdité que la mutité, qui semble avoir intéressé les
romanciers, sans doute parce qu’elle permettait d’interroger la fonction sociale de la parole.
Dans leurs oeuvres, les (sourds)-muets romanesques révèlent par contraste les dérèglements de
la parole provoqués par la Révolution.
L’objectif de ce travail est double. Il s’agit d’abord de replacer les discours sur la surdité
dans le contexte savant du tournant des Lumières et de montrer leur pertinence pour comprendre
les mutations linguistiques, anthropologiques et philosophiques qui le caractérisent. Il s’agit
ensuite de montrer, grâce à l’histoire des représentations, comment savoirs et fictions se
rencontrent dans le travail de métaphorisation dont la surdité est l’objet au tournant des
Lumières.At the intersection of the history of linguistic ideas and the history of representations, this thesis studies scholarly and fictional discourses on deafness between the final years of the Ancien Régime and the beginning of the Restoration (1776-1815). This period covers the years where the Abbé de L'Épée and the Abbé Sicard carried out their work. It matches the period of changes in the course of the history of the deaf people in France and how they were considered. The emergence of a specialist discourse on deafness, the setting up of institutions dedicated to the collective education of deaf people and the development of sign language and their literacy, mark the beginning of the integration of deaf people into society. Educators and philosophers are not the only ones to talk about deafness; the deaf people and their education also entrhal novelists and authors of short fiction. The sentimental novel seized the silent character and its sign language, sometimes separating him from deafness. Without doubt, the novelists have been interested much more by muteness than deafness, because the former enabled them to question the social function of speech. In their works, the novelists use contrast to reveal the malfunction of speech caused by the Revolution. The aim of this thesis is twofold. First, we put speech on deafness back in the scholarly context of the times and explain how it helps us understand the linguistic, anthropological and philosophical changes of this period. Secondly, through the history of the representations, we show how knowledge and fiction meet in the process of metaphorization of the idea of deafness of the end of the eighteenth century.
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Schumer, Nathan S. "The Memory of the Temple in Palestinian Rabbinic Literature." Thesis, 2017. https://doi.org/10.7916/D8TH9002.
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This dissertation concerns the memory of the Jerusalem Temple in rabbinic literature, arguing that different groups of rabbis continued to remember and recall the Temple after its destruction in 70 CE for a series of changing memorial purposes. This dissertation concerns two discrete questions about the role of the Temple in rabbinic literature: why did the rabbis remember the Temple in their various texts after its destruction in 70 CE and why were they often so accurate in their memories of the Temple and people that lived in the Second Temple period? Previous scholarship on this question has primarily argued that rabbinic memories of the Temple were a means to create rabbinic authority. This explanation does not account rabbinic literature’s accuracy concerning the Temple and the figures of the Second Temple period. My argument is that the project of rabbinic memory of the Temple is far more complex, and I argue that each rabbinic collection has its own particular set of memorial purposes, which motivated its commemoration of the Temple. Indeed, the very object of commemoration shifts between different rabbinic collections, which shows the malleability of rabbinic accounts of the Second Temple period.
For this dissertation, I draw on the methodology of social memory, looking at how the past was updated and changed to fit the present. This provides a conceptual model for understanding the Temple and the Second Temple period in rabbinic literature, as well as how its portrayal was updated and changed by various groups of rabbis. Social memory studies suggests that we focus on the historical conditions in which these particular groups of rabbis operated, providing a means to write a history of the memory of the Temple. At the same time, social memory also provides a conceptual model for addressing the historicity of rabbinic recollections of the past. Drawing on this model of social memory, I argue that rabbinic accounts of figures and events from the Second Temple period were accurate to a certain degree, but that these accounts were constructed in the service of a set of internal rabbinic goals and biases that govern the transmission of these memories. Each chapter of the dissertation examines a different aspect of the rabbinic memory of the Temple and how it reports and reimagines the memories of the Second Temple period.
Chapter 1 focuses on the Temple in the first century CE, examining the descriptions of the Temple found in the works of the historian Josephus and descriptions of dedications to the Temple. The evidence of Josephus and these dedications suggest that Jews and non-Jews alike saw the Temple as a commemorative site. This chapter is an explanatory prologue to the main body of my dissertation, which focuses on rabbinic literature. This claim of Chapter 1 frames my argument about the function of the Temple in the Mishnah in Chapter 2, where it continued to function as a commemorative site. Chapter 2 primarily concerns ritual narratives, descriptions of the Temple and its rituals that. I claim that one purpose of these narratives is to serve as a memorial of the destroyed Temple. Drawing on this account of the Mishnah, I turn to Mishnah Middot, a tractate that provides the measurements of the Temple’s space. I argue that Middot uses the commemoration of individuals and events from the Second Temple period to construct a narrative of the Jewish past. The rabbis of the Mishnah adapt and change the commemorative function of the Temple in Mishnah Middot.
In the late antique rabbinic collections the Talmud Yerushalmi and Eichah Rabbah, the focus of rabbinic memory shifts from the Temple to the Second Temple period more generally. I argue that stories in these different collections portray the Second Temple period as a particular sort of historical time, characterized by Jewish greatness. This Second Temple past is a time of moral and material superiority to the rabbinic present. I argue that this discourse reflects the context of Roman rule, as the rabbis sought to craft a usable and evocative Jewish past, which reminded Jews of their shared historical experience before Roman rule.
Chapter 3 concerns moral exemplarity as a means of commemorating the Second Temple period, focusing on stories in the Talmud Yerushalmi and Palestinian amoraic midrash collections. I provide close readings of three stories in which figures from the Second Temple period (who often seem to have been real individuals in the Second Temple period) are transformed into moral exemplars, embodiments of moral virtues or vices. Chapter 4 turns to another discourse around the Second Temple past, which is found in the Yerushalmi and Eichah Rabbah (ER). I argue that this discourse, the “Romanization” of the Second Temple period, uses the Roman convivial meal and the Roman province of Palestine to describe the greatness of the Jews in the Second Temple period, projecting these institutions back onto the Second Temple past. This strategy of displaced anachronism and misremembering commemorates Jewish greatness in the Second Temple period, a potential form of resistance to Roman rule, but the highly Roman means for doing so show the degree to which the rabbis are embedded in their Roman provincial context.
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Shinnar, Shulamit. "“The Best of Doctors Go to Hell”: Rabbinic Medical Culture in Late Antiquity (200-600 CE)." Thesis, 2019. https://doi.org/10.7916/d8-t73w-8224.
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This dissertation explores how rabbinic texts produced between the first and sixth century CE related to medical practice, particularly the network of medical practitioners, medical care institutions, and seekers of medical care in late antique Palestine. Drawing on methodology from critical medical anthropology, the history of science, post-colonial studies, and disability studies, I examine Palestinian rabbinic sources within the broader cultural context of the Roman Empire and ancient medicine. Focusing on rabbinic depictions of doctors, midwives, patients, and institutions of medical care, I study the implications of these literary representations for understanding rabbinic medical epistemology, including the production of medical knowledge and medical decision-making, as well as the role rabbinic literature assigned to rabbis within these networks of medical care. As rabbinic literature constructed rabbis as legal experts and communal leaders, exploring the ways in which these texts presented rabbis as seeking medical care and advice from medical practitioners provides an important case study to consider how rabbinic texts both negotiated interactions with experts and sources of expertise other than their own and understood the contours of the rabbinic role within provincial life.
My study highlights the fraught nature of seeking healing in the ancient world and examines how, in rabbinic literature, medical encounters between doctors and patients became performance sites for ethnic, religious, and gender difference. Indeed, rabbinic literature exhibited a profound distrust of medical practitioners and sought to undermine the expertise of doctors and midwives, presenting their treatments as dangerous or transgressive. I argue that, to combat this distrust, the texts constructed a unique role for the rabbis: intermediaries between seekers of care and medical practitioners. The texts imagined the rabbis evaluating the trustworthiness of doctors, consulting doctors alongside patients, and ensuring that the poor had access to affordable medical care.
The introductory chapter frames the context of the dissertation, the methodologies employed, and addresses the historiography of rabbinic medicine. After the introduction, each chapter addresses the rabbinic relationship to a different component of ancient medical networks. The second chapter addresses the rabbinic representation of doctors, especially the rabbinic concern with the danger involved in seeking medical care and the resulting distrust of medical practitioners. I also examine the position of the rofe uman, both as an example of a medical practitioner who is seen as uniquely trustworthy and as a key mechanism within rabbinic medical decision-making. The third chapter studies rabbinic depictions of midwives, considering the representation of Jewish and non-Jewish midwives. The fourth chapter examines the role of patients alongside that of medical practitioners in the production of medical knowledge for adjudicating ritual law and the effects of gender in this equation. The fifth chapter turns to the question of ancient healthcare and the rise of medical care for the poor as a key political issue for the church in the fourth century CE. In this context, I draw on disability studies to analyze rabbinic views on the communal responsibility to provide care and support for people who are both impoverished and sick.
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Panken, Aaron D. "The rhetoric of innovation : self-conscious change in Rabbinic literature /." 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3114214.
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Dohrmann, Natalie B. "Law and narrative in the Mekilta De-Rabbi Ishmael : the problem of midrashic coherence /." 1999. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:9943062.
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Greenberger, David Simon. "A comprehensive analysis of reward and punishment in the Rabbinical literature of the middle ages." Thesis, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/16875.
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This dissertation concentrates on those factors which form the doctrine of G-dly reward
and punishment. In other words, the philosophical approach amongst Jewish thinkers
from the Middle Ages to the above subject, which taken together give expression to the
doctrine of reward and ptmishment, or at least to the possibility of determining such a
doctrine. The definition of correct behaviour is not of interest for pwposes of this
dissertation, nor is human judgement of behaviour, even according to a G-dly doctrine;
only the A-lmighty's judgement and implementation thereof
The following points are of note.
Research into the specific approach of one individual philosopher is not the aim of this
dissertation, but rather a collective crystallised viewpoint according to various different
Jewish philosophers, in order to reach a harmonious formation of the desir~ goal. Hence
the details are also important since they assist towards the goal.
The views of the philsophers are of interest and not their source, viz. from whom these
views were received or by whom the philosophers were influenced, as is usually the case
in research. Nevertheless, this aspect is elaborated upon in the introduction to this
dissertation, in the style of the customary academic research approach.
An analytical comparison is made between the opinions of various authors, taking into
account the finer points of their words, as well as between the differing opinions expressed
by a single author in his various writings, and conclusions are drawn, the results of which
are highly significant.
Besides the fact that it is not within our power to adjudicate between the views of the
great Jewish thinkers, this is even more true here, due to the metaphysical nature of the
subject, which makes logical, rational-realistic judgement very difficult. Nevertheless,
some criteria have been established for making such a decision.
In summary, this dissertation is an attempt to research many diverse opinions in the
treasury of Jewish thought from the Middle Ages, and to extract those opinions from
which a complete system of the doctrine of reward and punishment can be built.Religious Studies and Arabic
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Revelson, Harold Glenn. "Ontological Torah : an instrument of religious and social discourse /." Thesis, 2005. http://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/bitstream/handle/2152/1709/revelsonh25742.pdf.
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Golding, Thomas Alan. "Jewish expectations of the shepherd image at the time of Christ." 2004. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=765087811&Fmt=7&clientId=78691&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
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Dalton, Krista. "Rabbis and Donors: The Logics of Giving in the Ancient Mediterranean." Thesis, 2019. https://doi.org/10.7916/d8-7cqh-5h15.
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This dissertation analyzes the performance of rabbinic expertise in the cultivation of donor and social networks in late antiquity. Through analysis of narrative depictions of rabbis and donors in Palestinian Rabbinic literature, I illustrate the social relationships created and maintained through gift-giving. I argue the rabbis used social networks to cultivate the legitimacy of the rabbinic project, facilitated by the authorizing power of donations. I demonstrate how donations to rabbis served as a means of legitimizing the rabbinic office as they formed into a self-conscious guild whose authority rested on the performance of expertise.
These donations were not so simply received, however, as the rabbis disdained reciprocal forms of patronage associated with the broader Roman empire. Therefore, I demonstrate how the rabbis drew from systems of donation in the biblical text in order to assuage the association of their donors with formal patronage. In drawing from the biblical system and applying to their own historical times, the rabbis blended the gift types of tithes, charity, benefaction, and patronage. In this way, narrative accounts of tithes, charity, and informal gifts to rabbis can be read for the dynamics of reciprocal expectations sometimes encoded in the narrative account. With careful attention to rabbinic exegetical strategies, I trace the reception of biblical ideas about giving to their manifestation within the particular context of Roman Syria Palaestina.
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Pollak, Josef. "The status of the woman entering marriage : tendencies in the views of sages in the Babylonian Talmud." Thesis, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10210/10773.
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Eavenson, Nancy J. "Israelite Interactions with Gentiles in the Old Testament and the Implications Regarding Missions." Diss., 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10392/3729.
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ISRAELITE INTERACTIONS WITH GENTILES IN THE
OLD TESTAMENT AND THE IMPLICATIONS
REGARDING MISSIONS
Nancy Jane Eavenson, Ph.D.
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2011
Chair: Dr. Russell T. Fuller
This dissertation examines the missional implications of teaching regarding Israelite interactions with Gentiles found in the Hebrew Scriptures. Chapter 1 defines what is meant in this study concerning mission and Israelite interactions with Gentiles. In addition, foundation is laid for the study by detailing presuppositions, history of perspectives on the topic, and the methodology.
Chapter 2 surveys the witness present in the Hebrew Scriptures concerning God's expectations for Israel's interactions with Gentiles. First, principles are highlighted for interactions from the Torah narratives and legislation. Next principles are identified in passages outside of the Torah. Finally, principles are outlined that are derived from key phrases and overall themes spanning the entire body of Hebrew Scriptures.
Chapter 3 studies specific examples of Israelite and Gentile interactions throughout the Hebrew Scriptures. Analysis is provided of the interactions in view of the foundational principles identified in chapter 2.
Chapter 4 examines how the intertestamental Jews interpreted and applied teaching from the Hebrew Scriptures concerning their interactions with Gentiles. Primary attention is given to the Jewish writings of the Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha, Josephus, and the Tannaim with references to NT opinion.
Chapter 5 synthesizes the data from the Hebrew Scriptures and intertestamental witness and draws conclusions about God's intention for Israel in relation to the Gentiles. In addition, observations are made concerning Israel's application of principles from the Hebrew Scriptures concerning their interactions with Gentiles. Finally, implications of the study are drawn for current application.
This work maintains that although many Israelites in the Hebrew Scriptures were unaware of God's intention for mission to Gentiles, some existed who understood God's desire and cooperated with God's mission. In addition, during the intertestamental period while many Jews failed to understand and act on God's mission to have His name glorified by Gentiles, others felt called to intentionally interact with Gentiles and actively sought to bring Gentiles to know and worship Yahweh as God.