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Journal articles on the topic "Midrashic imagination"

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Boyarin, Daniel. "The Satanic Verses and Evil in Babylonia." Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy 30, no. 1 (2022): 70–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1477285x-12341327.

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Abstract In this article, I study several midrashic passages preserved in the Babylonian Talmud that deal with Satan. The verses that they are based on are nearly all drawn from the book of Job. I find that these midrashim strongly support the conclusions of Ishay Rosen-Zvi’s monograph Demonic Desires in several ways, notably that Satan is not the font and origin of evil in the world as he is in other branches or wings of the ancient Jewish imagination.

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Rees, Robert A. "The Midrashic Imagination and the Book of Mormon." Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 44, no. 3 (2011): 44–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/dialjmormthou.44.3.0044.

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Bland, Kalman P., and Michael Fishbane. "The Midrashic Imagination: Jewish Exegesis, Thought, and History." Journal of the American Oriental Society 115, no. 1 (1995): 166. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/605357.

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Nicholson-Weir, Rebecca. "Cynthia Ozick's Midrashic Imagination in Heir to the Glimmering World." South Central Review 38, no. 1 (2021): 58–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/scr.2021.0003.

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Fishbane, Michael. "“The Holy One Sits and Roars”: mythopoesis and the Midrashic imagination." Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy 1, no. 1 (1992): 1–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/105369992790231022.

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Shemesh, Abraham Ofir. "Religious Literature, The realistic, and the Fantastic:." Estudos de Religião 33, no. 3 (2019): 235. http://dx.doi.org/10.15603/2176-1078/er.v33n3p235-255.

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The current study discusses several ancient Jewish traditions that speak of mythological-fantastic creatures in Noah's ark. The biblical text does not list the types of organisms that entered the ark, rather makes do with noting the groups of animals in general. The Midrashic literature on the story of the ark lists various species of fantastic humans and animals – Og king of Bashan, the giant re'em or the eternally living phoenix. It may be assumed that these creatures were included for several reasons: A. The ancients believed that these were realistic creatures and therefore assumed that th

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Ford, David F. "Meeting Nicodemus: A Case Study in Daring Theological Interpretation." Scottish Journal of Theology 66, no. 1 (2013): 1–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0036930612000270.

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AbstractThe Nicodemus story can be read as a distillation of the Gospel of John and an example of many of its key features. John 3:1–21 poses a wide range of the problems raised by this most distinctive and mysterious of the four gospels. It shows characteristic practices of John as a reader, writer and teacher. In line with John's theology of the Spirit ‘leading into all the truth’, it also shows him as a daring theologian, opening up fresh interpretations and ways of doing theology beyond the Septuagint and the Synoptic Gospels and even beyond his own Prologue (itself a remarkably daring pie

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Deutsch, Nathaniel. "Muhammad's Midrash: Elijah Muhammad's Biblical Interpretation in Light of Rabbinic Midrash." Prospects 20 (October 1995): 435–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0361233300006141.

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The nation of islam is well known for its anti-Semitic rhetoric. What is little known, or at least little acknowledged, however, is that the Nation of Islam and Judaism possess a number of striking similarities. Although some of these parallels may be attributed to the influence of Christianity and traditional Islam on the Nation's development, or even to direct or indirect contact with Jewish traditions, themselves, others must be traced to the fertile religious imagination of the movement's prophet and former leader, Elijah Muhammad.

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Landy, Francis. "Noah's Ark and Mrs. Monkey." Biblical Interpretation 15, no. 4-5 (2007): 351–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156851507x230304.

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AbstractThe article traces the interpretation of the flood story in children's literature, from the apparently literal versions, in which imaginative reinterpretation is transferred to the illustrations, to the non-verbal crowded scenes of Peter Spier, the Midrashic retellings of Scholem Asch and Marc Gellman, feminist readings, like those of Bach and Exum, Madeleine L'Engle's teen novel, and versions which stress the annihilatory implications, including Janisch and Zwerger's Noah's Ark. It concludes with a discussion of Ruth Kerr's How Mrs. Monkey Missed the Ark, in which the canonical text i

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Koltun-Fromm, Naomi. "Imagining the Temple in Rabbinic Stone: The Evolution of the ʾEven Shetiyah". AJS Review 43, № 2 (2019): 355–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0364009419000539.

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The mythical ʾeven shetiyah, often translated as the “foundation stone,” marks the physical place where the Jerusalem temples once stood in the rabbinic imagination. In its earliest incarnation it identified the place where the ark of the covenant resided in Solomon's Temple. Over the centuries it absorbed cosmogonic and eventually eschatological meaning. In later post-talmudic rabbinic literature, it adopted another mythic trope—the seal on the tehom. I argue that these two separate narrative strands of a seal on the tehomunder the Temple and ʾeven shetiyahin the Temple became intertwined, bu

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Books on the topic "Midrashic imagination"

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A, Fishbane Michael, ed. The Midrashic imagination: Jewish exegesis, thought, and history. State University of New York Press, 1993.

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1949-, Stern David, and Mirsky Mark, eds. Rabbinic fantasies: Imaginative narratives from classical Hebrew literature. Jewish Publication Society, 1990.

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1949-, Stern David, and Mirsky Mark, eds. Rabbinic fantasies: Imaginative narratives from classical Hebrew literature. Yale University Press, 1998.

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Fishbane, Michael A. The exegetical imagination: On Jewish thought and theology. Harvard University Press, 1998.

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Fishbane, Michael. Midrashic Imagination Jewish Exegesis, Thought, and History. State Univ of New York Pr, 1993.

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Fishbane, Michael. The Midrashic Imagination Jewish Exegesis, Thought, and History. State University of New York Press, 1993.

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Rabbinic Fantasies: Imaginative Narratives from Classical Hebrew Literature (Yale Judaica Series). Yale University Press, 1998.

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Book chapters on the topic "Midrashic imagination"

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"Midrashic Theologies of Messianic Suffering." In The Exegetical Imagination. Harvard University Press, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv228vqzt.9.

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"5 Midrashic Theologies of Messianic Suffering." In The Exegetical Imagination. Harvard University Press, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.4159/9780674272668-007.

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Schick, Shana Strauch. "Depictions of Childbirth in Rabbinic Literature: The Innovation of a Genizah Midrashic Text." In Mothers in the Jewish Cultural Imagination. Liverpool University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781906764661.003.0014.

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This chapter analyses an early medieval midrashic text, Midrash had shenati, which is unique in its depiction of childbirth. It looks at rabbinic texts that marginalize women's experience of childbirth in which midrash grants subjectivity to the physical experience of the labouring mother through its depiction of Rebekah's birthing of Jacob and Esau. It also reframes Rebekah's birth story and transforms it from its common cultural signification of the nation of Israel and its eternal struggle with the Other. The chapter demonstrates a mothers' physical pain during labour and childbirth, making

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"2 “The Holy One Sits and Roars”: Mythopoesis and Midrashic Imagination." In The Exegetical Imagination. Harvard University Press, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.4159/9780674272668-004.

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Wolfson, Elliot R. "‘Sage is preferable to prophet’: revisioning midrashic imagination." In Scriptural Exegesis. Oxford University Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199206575.003.0013.

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Bernstein, Charles. "13. The Pataquerical Imagination: Midrashic Antinomianism and the Promise of Bent Studies." In ’Pataphysics Unrolled. Penn State University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9780271091853-017.

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"Chapter 9. Israelite Kingship, Christian Rome, and the Jewish Imperial Imagination: Midrashic Precursors to the Medieval “Throne of Solomon”." In Jews, Christians, and the Roman Empire. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.9783/9780812208573.167.

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"Midrash and the Nature of Scripture." In The Exegetical Imagination. Harvard University Press, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv228vqzt.5.

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"1 Midrash and the Nature of Scripture." In The Exegetical Imagination. Harvard University Press, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.4159/9780674272668-003.

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"The Measure and Glory of God in Ancient Midrash." In The Exegetical Imagination. Harvard University Press, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv228vqzt.8.

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