Rabbinic Parodies of Jewish and Christian Literature

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...

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description 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.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1213912025-07-30T10:43:34Z Rabbinic Parodies of Jewish and Christian Literature Zellentin, Holger Michael Religion Philosophy Religious Religion Biblical Studies bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HR Religion & beliefs bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HR Religion & beliefs::HRA Religion: general::HRAB Philosophy of religion bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HR Religion & beliefs::HRL Aspects of religion (non-Christian)::HRLC Sacred texts::HRLC1 Criticism & exegesis of sacred texts 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. 2023-11-16T10:43:01Z 2023-11-16T10:43:01Z 2023-10-31T05:30:38Z 2023 book OCN: 820829510 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/77050 9783161506475 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/121391 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/77050/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/77050/1/external_content.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/77050/1/external_content.pdf Mohr Siebeck GmbH & Co. KG Knowledge Unlatched 9783161506475 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) KU Open Services Mohr Siebeck GmbH & Co. KG open access
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bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HR Religion & beliefs::HRA Religion: general::HRAB Philosophy of religion
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Zellentin, Holger Michael
Rabbinic Parodies of Jewish and Christian Literature
title Rabbinic Parodies of Jewish and Christian Literature
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title_short Rabbinic Parodies of Jewish and Christian Literature
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Philosophy
Religious
Religion
Biblical Studies
bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HR Religion & beliefs
bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HR Religion & beliefs::HRA Religion: general::HRAB Philosophy of religion
bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HR Religion & beliefs::HRL Aspects of religion (non-Christian)::HRLC Sacred texts::HRLC1 Criticism & exegesis of sacred texts
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Philosophy
Religious
Religion
Biblical Studies
bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HR Religion & beliefs
bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HR Religion & beliefs::HRA Religion: general::HRAB Philosophy of religion
bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HR Religion & beliefs::HRL Aspects of religion (non-Christian)::HRLC Sacred texts::HRLC1 Criticism & exegesis of sacred texts
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