'Virgil in the Basket': Narrative as hermeneutics in Hebrew literature of the Middle Ages

Eli Yassif

doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199206575.003.00015

'Virgil in the Basket': Narrative as hermeneutics in Hebrew literature of the Middle Ages

Eli Yassif^*

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Department of Literature

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This chapter emphasizes the continuity of central ideas over many centuries. Despite tremendous innovation and change within the literature, it persuasively connects folkloric motifs from a medieval Hebrew folktale with classical images from Jewish tradition. It addresses the question of the authority of narrative texts as historical documents as well as the question of narrative hermeneutics - in all its force and seriousness.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Scriptural Exegesis
Subtitle of host publication	The Shapes of Culture and the Religious Imagination Essays in Honour of Michael Fishbane
Publisher	Oxford University Press
ISBN (Electronic)	9780191709678
ISBN (Print)	9780199206575
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199206575.003.00015
State	Published - 1 May 2009

Keywords

Folktale
Jewish history
Jewish tradition
Narrative texts
The book of memory

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