Abstract
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 It addresses the question of the authority of narrative texts as historical documents as well as the question of narrative hermeneutics - in all its force and seriousness.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 |
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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 | |
State | Published - 1 May 2009 |
Keywords
- Folktale
- Jewish history
- Jewish tradition
- Narrative texts
- The book of memory