Seder Eliyahu (eBook)

A Narratological Reading

Constanza Cordoni (Autor)

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2018
315 Seiten
De Gruyter (Verlag)
978-3-11-053130-5 (ISBN)

Infos

The book is concerned with a so called ethical midrash, Seder Eliyahu (also known as Tanna debe Eliyahu), a post-talmudic work probably composed in the ninth century. It provides a survey of the research on this late midrash followed by five studies of different aspects related to what is designated as the work's narratology. These include a discussion of the problem of the apparent pseudo-epigraphy of the work and of the multiple voices of the text; a description of the various narrative types which the work, itself as a whole of non-narrative character, makes use of; a detailed treatment of Seder Eliyahu's parables and most characteristic first person narratives (an extremely unusual form of narrative discourse in rabbinic literature); as well as a final chapter dedicated to selected women stories in this late midrash. As it emerges from the survey in chapter 1 such a narratologically informed study of Seder Eliyahu represents a new approach in the research on a work that is clearly the product of a time of transition in Jewish literature.

Constanza Cordoni, Universität Utrecht, Niederlande.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.8.2018
• Reihe/Serie: ISSN
• Reihe/Serie: ISSN
• Reihe/Serie: Studia Judaica
• Reihe/Serie: Studia Judaica
• Zusatzinfo: 6 b/w tbl.
• Verlagsort: Berlin/Boston
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
• Schlagworte: Erzählforschung • Midrasch • Midrash • Narratology • rabbinic literature • Rabbinische Literatur • Seder Eliyahu
• ISBN-10: 3-11-053130-5 / 3110531305
• ISBN-13: 978-3-11-053130-5 / 9783110531305