Parables in Midrash

Narrative and Exegesis in Rabbinic Literature

By: David Stern

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Paperback | 1 January 1994 | Edition Number 1

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David Stern shows how the parable or mashal - the most distinctive type of narrative in midrash - was composed, how its symbolism works, and how it serves to convey the ideological convictions of the rabbis. He describes its relation to similar tales in other literatures, including the parables of Jesus in the New Testament and kabbalistic parables. Through its innovative approach to midrash, this study reaches far beyond its particular subject, and should appeal to all readers interested in narrative and religion.

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Parables in Midrash is one of the most sophisticated and mature works on rabbinic literature in this century... All readers will find the book an extremely valuable synthesis of cutting-edge methodologies, thorough knowledge of textual traditions, and the best exegesis of traditional literature the academy has to offer. -- Burton L. Visotzky Catholic Biblical Quarterly Well-written, comprehensible to the nonexpert and thorough in its description of material and in its use of modern literary criticism. -- Anthony J. Saldarini Theological Studies Stern argues persuasively that...the mashal's narrative becomes in itself a distinctly rabbinic form of scriptural exegesis. Stern's comparative discussions of parables ascribed to Jesus and the use of the mashal in later Hebrew literature make this book of great interest to students of New Testament, rabbinics, and literary theory. -- Martin S. Jaffee Religious Studies Review

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Abbreviations Note on Translations and Transliterations
Introduction
Composition and Exegesis
The Rabbinic Parable Mashal, Parable, and Allegory Mashal and Ma'aseh
The Origins of the Nimshal
The King-Mashal Stereotyping Eikhah Rabhah 4.11
The Mashal as Traditional Literature From Narrative to Exegesis
The Mashal and Midrashic Hermeneutics
Rhetoric The Occasions of the Mashal Three Models for the Mashal Meshalim of Praise and Blame Eikhah Rabbah 3.21
Poetics Theorizing Midrash Narrative or Exegesis?
Narrative Convention and Exegetical Novelty Gaps, Ambiguities, and Narrative Conceits Point of View and Authorial Presence
The Implied Interpreter Characterization Anthropomorphism
Thematics Apologetics Polemics Eulogy and Consolation Complaint Regret and Warning
The Mashal in Context
The Problem of Context in Midrash
The Mashal and the Homily
The Mashal and the Petihta
The Mashal and the Aggadic Narrative
The Mashal and the Exegetical Enumeration Series of Meshalim The Mashal in Midrash
The Mashal in Hebrew Literature From the Ancient Near East to Late Antiquity The Parables in the Synoptic
Gospels From the Tannaim to the Amoraim Tanna de-Bei Eliyahu Sefer Habahir Maimonides and Other Philosophers
The Zohar and Other Mystical Texts Modern Hebrew Literature
Appendix A: Nonparabolic Narratives in Rabbinic Literature
Appendix B: Hebrew Texts of the Meshalim from Eikhah Rabbah
Notes
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Parables in Midrash

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