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Proceedings of the Midrash Section, Society of Biblical Literature, Volume 6

Edited by W. David Nelson & Rivka Ulmer

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Series: Judaism in Context18

Publication Date: Aug 31,2015

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Page Count: 200

Languages: English

ISBN: 978-1-4632-0560-7

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This volume contains selected proceedings of the Midrash Section sessions convened during the 2012-2014 meetings of the Society of Biblical Literature. It is comprised of contributions by leading and emerging scholars that share a common focus on Rabbinic biblical interpretation as it intersects with a range of biblical texts and associated fields of study, including: Jewish legal literature; Hellenistic Judaism; post-biblical interpretation; biblical commentary; liturgical studies; and, cultural studies. The contributions explore how the study of Midrash illuminates and informs an array of topics, such as: race and slavery in antiquity; myth and theology in biblical tradition; reason and rationalism in the Hebrew Bible; inner-biblical interpretation; and, literary and form analysis.

W. David Nelson is chair of the Department of Religion and Ethics at Groton School. Rivka Ulmer is Professor of Jewish Studies, Department of Religious Studies, Bucknell University. They serve as chairs of the Midrash Section for the Society of Biblical Literature. They have both published widely in the interdisciplinary area of Jewish Studies, particularly in the field of Midrash.

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	Contributor	Biography
	W. DavidNelson	W. David Nelson served as the inaugural Rosenthal Associate Professor and Director of Jewish Studies at Texas Christian University and Brite Divinity School. He also served as the first Jewish Head of the Religious Studies and Philosophy Department at Groton School. He has served as both the President and Executive Director of the Society of Race, Ethnicity, and Religion and has published extensively in the field of Jewish Studies at the intersection of race, ethnicity, and religion
	RivkaUlmer	Rivka Ulmer is Professor of Jewish Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at Bucknell University. Together with W. David Nelson, she serves as chair of the Midrash Section for the Society of Biblical Literature, and both have published widely in the interdisciplinary area of Jewish Studies, particularly in the field of Midrash.
	IlariaRamelli	Ilaria Ramelli, MA; MA; Ph.D.; has been Professor of Roman Near Eastern History, and Assistant in Ancient Philosophy (Catholic University, since 2003); she is also Senior Visiting Professor of Greek Thought, as well as of Church History, Senior Fellow (Durham), academic and scientific consultant, research director, and member of directive boards of scholarly journals and series. She has written many books and articles on Patristics, ancient philosophy, and late antiquity in outstanding scholarly series and journals and received prestigious academic prizes.
	StevenSacks
	JonathanKaplan
	JonathanJacobs
	NehemiahPolen
	LennartLehmhaus

Table of Contents (page 5)
Introduction (page 7)
1. Ancient Jewish and Christian Exegeses of the 'Curse of Ham': Divergent Strategies against the Background of Ancient Views on Slavery (Ilaria Ramelli) (page 13)
2. Jacob's Double: A Reduplicative Confabulation of Post-Biblical Literature (Steven Daniel Sacks) (page 65)
3. The Holy of Holies or the Holiest? Rabbi Akiva's Characterization of Song of Songs in Mishnah Yadayim 3:5 (Jonathan Kaplan) (page 75)
4. The Spirit among the Sages: Seder Olam, the End of Prophecy, and Sagely Illumination (Nehemia Polen) (page 95)
5. Blessed be He, Who Remembered the Earlier Deeds and Overlooks the Later - Prayer, Benedictions, and Liturgy in the New Rhetoric Garb of Late Midrashic Traditions (Lennart Lehmhaus) (page 107)
6. The Role of Small Forms in Pirqei deRabbi Eliezer (Katharina Keim) (page 153)
7. Inner-Biblical Exegesis in Rashbam's Commentary on Qohelet (Jonathan Jacobs) (page 179)
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