A Mirror of Rabbinic Hermeneutics : Studies in Religion, Magic, and Language Theory in Ancient Judaism - Giuseppe Veltri

A Mirror of Rabbinic Hermeneutics

Studies in Religion, Magic, and Language Theory in Ancient Judaism

By: Giuseppe Veltri

Paperback | 14 June 2017

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Rabbinic hermeneutics in ancient Judaism reflects this multifaceted world of the text and of reality, seen as a world of reference worth commentary. As a mirror, it includes this world but perhaps also falsifies reality, adapting it to one's own aims and necessities. It consists of four parts:
Part I, considered as introduction, is the description of the "Rabbinic Workshop" (Officina Rabbinica), the rabbinic world where the student plays a role and a reformation of a reformation always takes place, the world where the mirror was created and manufactured.
Part II deals with the historical environment, the world of reference of rabbinic Judaism in Palestine and in the Hellenistic Diaspora (Reflecting Roman Religion);
Part III focuses on magic and the sciences, as ancient (political and empirical) activities of influence in the double meaning of receiving and adopting something and of attempt to produce an effect on persons and objects (Performing the Craft of Sciences and Magic).
Part IV addresses the rabbinic concern with texts (Reflecting on Languages and Texts) as the main area of "influence" of the rabbinic academy in a space between the texts of the past and the real world of the present.

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Der uberaus lesenswerte Sammelband enthalt grundliche Analysen und mass-gebliche Interpretationen zu wichtigen Aspekten der Religion und Literatur des antiken und mittelalterlichen Judentums und unterstreicht insbesondere die Not-wendigkeit einer umfassenden wissenschaftlichen Beschaftigung mit Phanomenen und Gegenstanden des judischen Alltagslebens.Michael Tilly in: Judaica 4/2015

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