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131-448 The Rabbinic Imagination | |
Availability | Not offered in 1998. |
Credit Points | 16.7 4th year |
Coordinator | Dr M Baker |
Contact | A 2-hour seminar per week |
Subject Description | A study of Jewish literacy and rabbinic culture from post-biblical times to the present. Beyond the cliché about Jews being the People of the Book, why are Jewish texts so central to the rabbinic imagination? This subject will consider the impact of social change on the interpretation of canonical literature and the impact on Jewish society of different types of writing, including law, homilies, philosophy, mysticism, hasidic parables, folk-tales and ethical literature. The genre of midrash - rabbinic hermeneutics - will also be studied in light of post-modernist theories about the text. |
Assessment | Written work of no more than 6000 words. |
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