The theological foundations of rabbinic Midrash /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Lanham, Md. :
University Press of America,
[2006]
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| Series: | Studies in Judaism.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- pt. 1. The common theology of rabbinic Midrash. The theological category-formations of rabbinic Midrash: [1] God, man, and Israel
- [2] God, Israel, and the nations
- [3] God's justice and God's mercy
- [4] God's judgment, Israel's repentance and atonement; God's remorse, Israel's consolation
- [5] Restoration; The end of days
- pt. 2. Special cases and general conceptions. Special cases: theological category-formations particular to a single document
- pt. 3. Midrash-compilations without conventional theological category-formations. The implicit theological foundations of Sifra
- Midrash without theology: Sifré to Numbers
- pt. 4. Rabbinic Judaism: the theological construction. The place of the rabbinic Midrash-compilations in the encompassing theology of rabbinic Judaism, aggadic and halakhic.