Rabbinic Parodies of Jewish and Christian Literature
Rabbinic Parodies of Jewish and Christian Literature
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 24054348 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Holger Zellentin (0000-0003-0960-3679, Graduate Theological Union, corresponding author), Holger Michael Zellentin |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 139 |
| Pages | 284 |
| Publication date | 2011-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Rabbinic Parodies of Jewish and Christian Literature (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Mohr Siebeck (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1628/978-3-16-151472-2 |
| OpenAlex | W2895376212 |
| ISBN | 9783161514722, 9783161506475 |
| Open Library | OL46094824M, OL25338577M |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
Holger M. Zellentin seeks to probe how far the classical rabbis took their literary playfulness in order to advance their religious and societal causes. Building on the literary approaches to rabbinic Judaism of the past decades, this work considers the rabbis' attitudes towards their Byzantine and Sassanian surroundings. The author examines how the Talmud and Midrash in Palestine and Persia repeat previous texts with comical difference, oscillating between reverence and satire. The result shows rabbinic society and its literature engaging in the great debates of their times, commenting on issues such as pedagogy, abstinence, dream interpretation, inheritance law, ritual purity, and Christian triumphalism and asceticism. In constant conversation with the Bible, the rabbis reveal themselves as capable of critically reinventing the Jewish tradition, as well as of playfully engaging a few Gospel passages favoured by their Christian interlocutors. Rabbinic parodies cast deviant insiders as tantamount to outsiders and explore the limits of acculturation within the Jewish tradition - in the Talmud, even parody itself comes under parodic scrutiny.
Art · Jewish · Judaism · Literature · Midrash · Parodies · Rabbinic · Rabbinic Judaism · Rabbinic Parodies · Talmud · Theology · Antiquity · History of Ancient Religions · New Testament · Archaeology and Historical Studies · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · Historical and Linguistic Studies · History · Philosophy · Christian literature, early, history and criticism · Christliche Literatur · Early Christian literature · History and criticism · Jüdische Literatur · Midrasch · Parodie · Parodies, imitations · Rabbinical literature · Rabbinical literature, history and criticism · Sermon on the mount
| Citations per year | 0.43 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2023 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |