Web of Life: Folklore and Midrash in Rabbinic Literature (Contraversions: Jews & Other Differences)

by Galit Hasan - Rokem (Author), Batya Stein (Translator)

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  2000

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  This work weaves its interpretation of Jewish culture in the Palestine of late antiquity on the warp of a singular rabbinic text Lamentations Rabbah . The textual analyses that form the core of the book are informed by a range of theoretical paradigms rarely brought to bear on rabbinic literature.