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Seder Eliyahu: A Narratological Reading

Seder Eliyahu: A Narratological Reading

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Series: Studia Judaica, Book 100

Judaism

ISBN10: 3110710471
ISBN13: 9783110710472
Publisher: De Gruyter
Published: Jul 6 2020
Pages: 315
Weight: 1.08
Height: 0.71 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
The book is concerned with a so called ethical midrash, Seder Eliyahu (also known as Tanna debe Eliyahu), a post-talmudic work probably composed in the ninth century. It provides a survey of the research on this late midrash followed by five studies of different aspects related to what is designated as the work's narratology. These include a discussion of the problem of the apparent pseudo-epigraphy of the work and of the multiple voices of the text; a description of the various narrative types which the work, itself as a whole of non-narrative character, makes use of; a detailed treatment of Seder Eliyahu's parables and most characteristic first person narratives (an extremely unusual form of narrative discourse in rabbinic literature); as well as a final chapter dedicated to selected women stories in this late midrash. As it emerges from the survey in chapter 1 such a narratologically informed study of Seder Eliyahu represents a new approach in the research on a work that is clearly the product of a time of transition in Jewish literature.

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