03708nam 2200757 a 450 991082267240332120240528210523.01-282-45680-697866124568003-11-022393-710.1515/9783110223934(CKB)2480000000000015(EBL)476129(OCoLC)609852903(SSID)ssj0000359240(PQKBManifestationID)11269259(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000359240(PQKBWorkID)10383318(PQKB)11494551(MiAaPQ)EBC476129(DE-B1597)37882(OCoLC)1024028043(OCoLC)979749519(DE-B1597)9783110223934(Au-PeEL)EBL476129(CaPaEBR)ebr10359388(CaONFJC)MIL245680(EXLCZ)99248000000000001520090922d2009 uy 0engur||#||||||||txtccrEgyptian cultural icons in Midrash /by Rivka UlmerBerlin ;New York Walter De Gruyterc20091 online resource (432 p.)Studia Judaica, Forschungen zur Wissenschaft des Judentums ;Bd. 52Description based upon print version of record.3-11-022392-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. [327]-378) and index.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.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 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).Studia Judaica (Walter de Gruyter & Co.) ;Bd. 52.Egypt--In rabbinical literatureMidrashHistory and criticismEgypt--In the BibleEgyptCivilizationEgypt.Exodus.Judaism.Midrash.Rabbinic.Egypt--In rabbinical literature.MidrashHistory and criticism.Egypt--In the Bible.296.1/408932BD 3640rvkUlmer Rivka1177397MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910822672403321Egyptian cultural icons in Midrash4066031UNINA