Re-Presenting Texts

Jewish and Black Biblical Interpretation

This is the fifth issue of Proceedings of the Midrash Section at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature published in this series, and contains six papers on Jewish and Black biblical hermeneutics with regard to Rabbinic Midrash.

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This is the fifth issue of Proceedings of the Midrash Section at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature published in this series. This volume contains six papers on Jewish and Black biblical hermeneutics with regard to Rabbinic Midrash (the topic of the 2011 session) and on “underrepresented” Rabbinic texts that were the focus of the 2010 sessions. Wil Gafney raises and explores the issue of how Jewish and Black biblical hermeneutics inform issues of White and Black identity. W. David Nelson addresses the occurrence and dynamics of racial thought in Rabbinic Literature and the treatment of the issue in scholarship on Rabbinic Midrash. Rebecca Alpert analyzes and responds to the critical remarks by Charles Copher about midrashic traditions on the “Curse of Ham” in his seminal publication, “The Black Presence in the Old Testament.” Dominique-Jamal Hopkins utilizes racialized hermeneutics to examine critically the ethnocentric exegesis of Rabbinic Literature pertaining to the Noahic curse. Since these issues are both critical and challenging, there is a response by Stacy Davis and a rejoinder by Rivka Ulmer. Rachel Adelman engages with the topic of the bones of the Ephraimites and the Messiah in Pirke de Rabbi Eliezer, reviving Joseph Heinemann’s arguments regarding a parallel between the early Exodus of the Ephraimites and the Messiah. Laura Lieber addresses the prayer referred to as the ‘Groom’s Yotzer’ in light of Creation and its rabbinic, literary imagery.

W. David Nelson is a member of the Religion and Ethics Department at the Groton School. He was formerly the Rosenthal Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and Director of the Program in Jewish Studies at Texas Christian University and Brite Divinity School. Rivka Ulmer is Professor of Jewish Studies at Bucknell University; she was formerly the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Chair of Jewish Studies at Bucknell (2002–2008). They are the chairs of the Midrash Session at the SBL Annual Meetings. They have both published widely in the field of Jewish Studies, and 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.
	RachelAdelman
	RebeccaAlpert
	WilGafney
	Jamal-DominiqueHopkins	Jamal-Dominique Hopkins (Ph.D., University of Manchester, U.K.) is Associate Professor of Christian Scriptures at Baylor University's George W. Truett Theological Seminary. His research explores the intersection of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Qumran Studies with Biblical Literature and Black Religious Thought.
	LauraLieber
	StacyDavis

Copyright Page (page 4)
Table of Contents (page 5)
Introduction (page 7)
1 Eurocentrism: The Tie That Binds Black Christian and White Jewish Biblical Scholarship (W. David Nelson) (page 11)

Race, Rabbinics and the Black Presence in the Old Testament (page 12)
Eurocentrism: The Tie that Binds Black Christian and White Jewish Scholarship (page 17)
Concluding Considerations (page 23)

2 The Noahic Curse in Rabbinic Literature: Racialized Hermeneutics or Ethnocentric Exegesis (Jamal-Dominique Hopkins) (page 25)

Ideological Variance within Qumranic Literature (page 33)
MMT B 13…17 and 64…72„Notions of Purification (page 34)

3 Translating Rabbinic Texts on the Curse of Ham: What We Learn from Charles Copher and his Critics (Rebecca Alpert) (page 39)

Cophers Role (page 42)
Lost in Translation (page 44)
A Question of Aesthetics? (page 46)
The Issue is Sexuality (page 47)
Conclusions (page 49)
Bibliography (page 50)

4 It Does Matter if Youre Black Or White, Too-black or Too-white, but Mestizo is Just Right (Wil Gafney) (page 53)
5 Response to W. David Nelson, Wil Gafney, Jamal-Dominique Hopkins, and Rebecca Alpert (Stacy Davis) (page 63)

Bibliography (page 72)

6 Rejoinder: Black and Jewish Hermeneutics (Rivka Ulmer) (page 75)
7 Preempting the Redemption: The Bones of the Ephraimites and the Messianic Pretender in Midrash Rachel Adelman) (page 87)

The Road Less Traveled (page 92)

Mekhilta Beshalla? 1 (Ed. Horovitz-rabin 75F.) (page 93)

In the Valley of Duma (page 96)

b. Sanhedrin 92b (page 96)

Miscalculating the End (page 100)

Pirqe de-Rabbi Eliezer Chapter 48 (page 102)

You Cant Hurry LoveƒŽ (page 105)

Canticles Rabbah 2:7 (page 106)

Who is the Messianic Pretender? (page 108)
Conclusion (page 110)
Appendix A: Chart Summarizing the Sources on the Legend of the Bones of the Ephraimites (page 112)

8 The Poetry of Creation: Zevadiah and Amittais Yotzerot Le-Hatan (Grooms YotzersŽ) (Laura Lieber) (page 113)

Poetic Background; Midrashic Sources (page 115)
The Piyyutim (page 120)
Zevadiahs Yotzer Le-Hatan (page 122)
Amittais Yotzer Le-Hatan (page 128)
Analysis and Conclusion (page 133)
Appendix A: Zevadiahs Yotzer Le-Hatan (page 135)
Appendix B: Amittais Yotzer-le-Hatan (page 144)

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