Barmash, Pamela.

Exodus in the Jewish Experience : Echoes and Reverberations. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (271 pages)

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction. The Exodus: Central, Enduring, and Generative -- Chapter 1. Out of the Mists of History: The Exaltation of the Exodus in the Bible -- Chapter 2. Discontinuity and Dissonance: Torah, Textuality, and Early Rabbinic Hermeneutics of Exodus -- Chapter 3. The Past as Paradigm: Enactments of the Exodus Motif in Jewish Liturgy -- Chapter 4. The Impact of the Exodus on Halakhah (Jewish Law) -- Chapter 5. Passover and Thanatos in Medieval Jewish Consciousness -- Chapter 6. Observations on the Biblical Miniatures in Spanish Haggadot -- Chapter 7. From Myth to Memory: A Study of German Jewish Translations of Exodus 12-13:16 -- Chapter 8. The Desert Comes to Zion: A Narrative Ends its Wandering -- Index -- About the Contributors.

Exodus in the Jewish Experience: Echoes and Reverberations investigates how the Exodus has been, and continues to be, a crucial source of identity for both Jews and Judaism. It explores how the Exodus has functioned as the primary hermeneutical model from which Jews have created theological meaning and historical self-understanding.

9781498502931


Bible.--Exodus--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Jews--Identity.


Electronic books.

BS1245.52E96 2015

222/.1206