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UNINA9910455715703321 |
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Autore |
Ulmer Rivka |
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Egyptian cultural icons in Midrash [[electronic resource] /] / by Rivka Ulmer |
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Berlin ; ; New York, : Walter De Gruyter, c2009 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-45680-6 |
9786612456800 |
3-11-022393-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (432 p.) |
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Collana |
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Studia Judaica, Forschungen zur Wissenschaft des Judentums ; ; Bd. 52 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Egypt in rabbinical literature |
Midrash - History and criticism |
Egypt in the Bible |
Electronic books. |
Egypt Civilization |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-378) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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The significance of Egypt in rabbinic texts -- Pharaohs Sheshonq, Necho, and Apries -- The Nile -- Egyptian festivals -- The Osiris myth and Egyptian magic -- History, the Roman emperor, and Egyptian funeral practices -- Alexandria -- Cleopatra, Isis and Serapis -- The Egyptian gods, language, and customs -- The divine eye -- The "finding of Moses" in art and text. |
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Rabbinic midrash included Egyptian religious concepts. These textual images are compared to Egyptian culture. Midrash is analyzed from a cross-cultural perspective utilizing insights from the discipline of Egyptology. Egyptian textual icons in rabbinic texts are analyzed in their Egyptian context.Rabbinic knowledge concerning Egypt included: Alexandrian teachers are mentioned in rabbinic texts; Rabbis traveled to Alexandria; Alexandrian Jews traveled to Israel; trade relations existed; Egyptian, as well as Roman and Byzantine, artifacts relating to Egypt.Egyptian elements in the rabbinic discourse: the Nile inundation, the Greco-Roman Nile god, festivals, mummy portraits, funeral customs, language, Pharaohs, Cleopatra VII, magic, the gods Isis and |
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Serapis. The hermeneutical role of Egyptian cultural icons in midrash is explored. Methods applied: comparative literature; semiotics; notions of time and space; the dialectical model of Theodor Adorno; theories of cultural identity by Jürgen Habermas; iconography (Mary Hamer); landscape theory; embodied fragments of memory (Jan Assmann). |
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