A01=Constanza Cordoni
Author_Constanza Cordoni
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Rabbinische Literatur
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- ISBN 9783110710472
- Weight: 623g
- Dimensions: 155 x 230mm
- Publication Date: 06 Jul 2020
- Publisher: De Gruyter
- Publication City/Country: DE
- Product Form: Paperback
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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, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands.
