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From tradition to commentary : Torah and its interpretation in the Midrash Sifre to Deuteronomy / Steven D. Fraade.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Hebrew Series: SUNY series in JudaicaPublication details: Albany : State University of New York Press, �1991.Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 343 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585075859
  • 9780585075853
  • 9780791404959
  • 0791404951
  • 9780791404966
  • 079140496X
  • 1438403143
  • 9781438403144
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: From tradition to commentary.DDC classification:
  • 296.1/4 20
LOC classification:
  • BM517.S75 F73 1991eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Front Matter -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Transliterations -- Note on theTextual Basis of the Translations -- Content -- Introduction: The Turn To Commentary -- Re-Presenting Revelation -- Introduction -- Sifre Texts and Commentary -- The Lord Came from Sinai (343) -- Lover, Indeed, of the Peop/e(s) (344) -- The Heritage of the Congregation of Jacob (345) -- He Encompassed Him and Instructed Him (313) -- Conclusions -- The Early Rabbinic Sage and His Torah in the Text of the Sifre -- Introduction.
Sifre Texts and Commenta -- Ask Your Elders and They Will Tell You (310) -- That I Command You Today (41) -- Or the Magistrate in Charge at the Time (152-153) -- They Shall Teach Your Statutes to Jacob (351) -- Serving Him with All Your Heart (41) -- Holding Fast to Him (49) -- You Shall Hold a Day of Assembly (135) -- May My Discourse Come Down as Rain (306) -- When the Heads of the People Are Gathered (346) -- I Will Appoint Them as Your Heads (13) -- If, Then, Yau Carefully Keep (48) -- Take to Heart All the Words (335) -- Conclusions.
Polyphony and Plot: Torah as Song as Covenantal Witness -- Introduction -- The Song of Moses (Deut. 32) -- Sifre Text and Commentary -- Beginning -- Middle -- End -- Beginning-Middle-End -- Countertexts -- Fragmentary Targum -- 1 Enoch -- 2 Baruch -- Conclusions -- Back Matter -- Afterword -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliographic References -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Index of Primary Sources -- Index of Names and Subjects.
Summary: Annotation Examines Torah and its interpretation as a recurring theme in the early rabbinic community. Fraade (Judaism, Yale) studies ancient rabbinic scriptural commentary in relation to the perspectives of literary and historical criticisms, and discusses the nature of ancient commentary, comparing and contrasting it with the antecedents in the pesharim of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the allegorical commentaries of Philo of Alexandria. Paper edition (unseen), $18.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
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Includes translations from Hebrew.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-310) and indexes.

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Front Matter -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Transliterations -- Note on theTextual Basis of the Translations -- Content -- Introduction: The Turn To Commentary -- Re-Presenting Revelation -- Introduction -- Sifre Texts and Commentary -- The Lord Came from Sinai (343) -- Lover, Indeed, of the Peop/e(s) (344) -- The Heritage of the Congregation of Jacob (345) -- He Encompassed Him and Instructed Him (313) -- Conclusions -- The Early Rabbinic Sage and His Torah in the Text of the Sifre -- Introduction.

Sifre Texts and Commenta -- Ask Your Elders and They Will Tell You (310) -- That I Command You Today (41) -- Or the Magistrate in Charge at the Time (152-153) -- They Shall Teach Your Statutes to Jacob (351) -- Serving Him with All Your Heart (41) -- Holding Fast to Him (49) -- You Shall Hold a Day of Assembly (135) -- May My Discourse Come Down as Rain (306) -- When the Heads of the People Are Gathered (346) -- I Will Appoint Them as Your Heads (13) -- If, Then, Yau Carefully Keep (48) -- Take to Heart All the Words (335) -- Conclusions.

Polyphony and Plot: Torah as Song as Covenantal Witness -- Introduction -- The Song of Moses (Deut. 32) -- Sifre Text and Commentary -- Beginning -- Middle -- End -- Beginning-Middle-End -- Countertexts -- Fragmentary Targum -- 1 Enoch -- 2 Baruch -- Conclusions -- Back Matter -- Afterword -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliographic References -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Index of Primary Sources -- Index of Names and Subjects.

Annotation Examines Torah and its interpretation as a recurring theme in the early rabbinic community. Fraade (Judaism, Yale) studies ancient rabbinic scriptural commentary in relation to the perspectives of literary and historical criticisms, and discusses the nature of ancient commentary, comparing and contrasting it with the antecedents in the pesharim of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the allegorical commentaries of Philo of Alexandria. Paper edition (unseen), $18.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

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