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Scripture As Logos: Rabbi Ishmael And The Origins Of Midrash (Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion),Used
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The study of midrashthe biblical exegesis, parables, and anecdotes of the Rabbishas enjoyed a renaissance in recent years. Most recent scholarship, however, has focused on the aggadic or narrative midrash, while halakhic or legal midrashthe exegesis of biblical lawhas received relatively little attention. In Scripture as Logos, Azzan Yadin addresses this longstanding need, examining early, tannaitic (70200 C.E.) legal midrash, focusing on the interpretive tradition associated with the figure of Rabbi Ishmael.This is a sophisticated study of midrashic hermeneutics, growing out of the observation that the Rabbi Ishmael midrashim contain a dual personification of Scripture, which is referred to as both 'torah' and 'hakatuv.' It is Yadin's significant contribution to note that the two terms are not in fact synonymous but rather serve as metonymies for Sinai on the one hand and, on the other, the rabbinic house of study, the bet midrash. Yadin develops this insight, ultimately presenting the complex but highly coherent interpretive ideology that underlies these rabbinic texts, an ideology thatcontrary to the dominant view todayseeks to minimize the role of the rabbinic reader by presenting Scripture as actively selfinterpretive.Moving beyond textual analysis, Yadin then locates the Rabbi Ishmael hermeneutic within the religious landscape of Second Temple and postTemple literature. The result is a series of surprising connections between these rabbinic texts and Wisdom literature, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the Church Fathers, all of which lead to a radical rethinking of the origins of rabbinic midrash and, indeed, of the Rabbis as a whole.
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