Narratology, hermeneutics, and Midrash : Jewish, Christian, and Muslim narratives from the late antiquity through to modern times / Constanza Cordoni, Gerhard Langer (eds.). Göttingen : V&R unipress ; Wien : Vienna University Press, 2014
Content
Title Page
Copyright
Table of Contents
Constanza Cordoni / Gerhard Langer (Wien): Introduction
Body
Irmtraud Fischer (Graz): Reception of Biblical texts within the Bible: A starting point of midrash?
The art of (late?) biblical narrative as skillful artistic construct of text references
Preliminary remark on defining position and interests
Different interpretations of text-links in different methodologies
Hermeneutical premise
The Bible as “story” tells “history” by using “patterns”: some examples
Quotations of “Leitwörter” relevant for exegesis of the later text
Occurrence of a phrase in only one other similar context
Modelling figures after exemplary characters
Telling stories for interpreting legal texts
Modelling parts of the canon along texts
Consequences for biblical exegesis today
Ilse Muellner (University of Kassel): Celebration and Narration. Metaleptic features in Ex 12:1–13,16
Metalepsis
Historical narrative and feast instructions in Ex 12:1–13:16
The communication structure
Binding of subsequent generations
Feast and memory terminology
Spatial and temporal prolepses
Functions of the metalepsis in biblical narratives
Agnethe Siquans (Wien): Midrasch und Kirchenväter: Parallelen und Differenzen in Hermeneutik und Methodologie
Definitionen: Charakteristika des rabbinischen Midrasch und die patristische Bibelauslegung
Midrasch und Allegorese
Beispieltext: Rabbinische und patristische Auslegung von Ex 1,15–22
Vergleich der beiden Auslegungen
Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede in rabbinischer und patristischer Hermeneutik
Schlussfolgerungen
Carol Bakhos (University of California): Reading Against the Grain: Humor and Subversion in Midrashic Literature
Joshua Levinson (Jerusalem): Post-Classical Narratology and the Rabbinic Subject
Introduction
Historical Context
The Subject in Legal Discourse
Intention and Subjectivity in Midrash Aggadah
History of the Sage as Subject
Conclusion
Appendix: Pirkei de-Rabbi Eliezer, ch. 1–2
Paul Mandel (Jerusalem): Kidors Revenge: Murder, Texts and Rabbis – An Analysis of a Rabbinic Tale and its Transmission (BT Yoma 83b)
Introduction
The Tale of Kidor: Babylonian Talmud Yoma 83b
The Parallel Palestinian Traditions
The Tale in the Babylonian Talmud
The “Other” Tradition and the “Latter Water”
Appendix I: The Manuscript Sources of the Narrative (Babylonian Talmud)
Appendix II: Evidence of Different Versions of the Tale in Early Ashkenazic Commentaries to the Babylonian Talmud
Lorena Miralles Maciá (University of Granada): Judaizing a Gentile Biblical Character through Fictive Biographical Reports: The Case of Bityah, Pharaohs Daughter, Moses Mother, according to Rabbinic Interpretations
Introduction
Preliminary Matters
a. Relating 1 Chr 4:17–18 to the Episode in Exod 2
b. Characterization of Pharaohs daughter as Moses mother
Bityah, Pharaohs Daughter and Moses Mother in Rabbinic Tradition
a. Bityah, Moses adoptive or biological mother?
b. Bityah, Mered-Calebs wife
c. Bityah, the proselyte?
d. Bityah saving Moses
e. Bityahs illness
f. Bityah, the firstborn
g. Bityahs reward
Conclusions
Susanne Plietzsch (Salzburg): “That is what is written” – Retrospective Revelation of the Meaning of a Verse in Aggadic Midrash
First Reading: Without Preconceptions
Second Reading: Within the Rabbinic Discourse
How Does This Text Work?
Gerhard Langer (Vienna): Lekh Lekha: Midrash Bereshit Rabbah and Tanḥuma to Gen 12:1
Midrash and a literary approach
Gen. Rab. Lekh Lekha 1
The text in translation
Structures, forms and hermeneutical processes
Analysis according to narratological categories
Historical and cultural context
Tanḥuma Lekh Lekha 1
The text in translation
Structures, forms and hermeneutical processes
Analysis according to narratological categories
Historical and cultural context
Conclusions and remarks
Constanza Cordoni (Vienna): The emergence of the individual author(-image) in late rabbinic literature
Angelika Neuwirth (Berlin): The Challenge of Biblical Passion Narratives: Negotiating, Moderating, and Reconstructing Abrahams Sacrifice in the Qurʾan
The Qurʾan Text
Christian Tradition and Abrahams Sacrifice
The Meccan Qurʾan and Abrahams Sacrifice
The Medinan Qurʾan and Abrahams Sacrifice
Conclusion
Andreas Mauz (Zurich): “Write what you see and hear”. Methodological problems of the poetics of `sacred text': Hildegards Protestificatio as revelation narrative
“Conversations with God”
Poetics of `sacred text'
Revelation narratives, sanctifying texts
Narrative grammar of revelation
Sanctifying scenes of writing
Hildegards Liber Scivias: a mystical `sacred text'
The “prophetissa teutonica” and her Liber Scivias
The sanctifying text: the Protestificatio
The Protestificatio as revelation narrative
The seeress: an iconic scene of writing
Conclusion: multiple writing, primacy of vision
Armin Eidherr (Salzburg/Austria): Forms and Functions of Midrashic Narrative in Modern Yiddish Literature in the Light of Itzik Manger and Hirsh Osherowitsh
Dorothee Gelhard (Regensburg): Maqom als Figur der Profanierung bei Walter Benjamin
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