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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822858503321

Autore

Hasan-Rokem Galit

Titolo

Tales of the neighborhood : Jewish narrative dialogues in late antiquity / / Galit Hasan-Rokem

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , 2003

©2003

ISBN

1-282-35687-9

9786612356872

0-520-92894-6

1-59734-930-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 208 pages)

Collana

The Taubman lectures in Jewish studies ; ; 4

Disciplina

398.2/089/924

Soggetti

Jews - Israel - Galilee

Jewish legends - History and criticism

Rabbinical literature - History and criticism

Women in rabbinical literature

Folklore in rabbinical literature

Galilee (Israel) Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-190) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Erecting the Fence: Texts, Contexts, Theories, and Strategies -- 2. Peeping through a Hole: Comparing and Borrowing -- 3. Building the Gate, or Neighbors Make Good Fences -- 4. The Evasive Center: Hadrian, the Old Man, the Neighbor, and the Rabbinic Rhetoric of the Empire -- 5. Between Us: A Conclusion -- Notes -- Index of Ancient Sources and Authors -- General Index -- Index of Modern Authors

Sommario/riassunto

In this lively and intellectually engaging book, Galit Hasan-Rokem shows that religion is shaped not only in the halls of theological disputation and institutions of divine study, but also in ordinary events of everyday life. Common aspects of human relations offer a major source for the symbols of religious texts and rituals of late antique Judaism as well as its partner in narrative dialogues, early Christianity,



Hasan-Rokem argues. Focusing on the "neighborhood" of the Galilee that is the birthplace of many major religious and cultural developments, this book brings to life the riddles, parables, and folktales passed down in Rabbinic stories from the first half of the first millennium of the Common Era.