sparks of the logos essays in rabbinic hermeneutics

There are two major themes running through the essays reprinted in this book: the first is the typological relation of rabbinic Judaism to Christianity, while the second is the re-animation, by going back to the roots, of a rabbinic Judaism that would not manifest some of the deleterious social ideologies and practices that modern orthodox Judaism generally does, a project that was thought of as radical orthodoxy, long before that term achieved its current-and almost diametrically opposing-sense among Christian theologians. The book is divided into two parts. The first part consists of several essays on midrash, exploring various aspects of rabbinic culture and their relation to hermeneutic practices. These papers are essentially more detailed studies of particular issues that were raised in two of Boyarin's books, Intertextuality and the Reading of Midrash and Carnal Israel: Reading Sex in Talmudic Culture (California, 1993). The second part of the book consists of reprints of four essays published in the journal Diacritics during that same decade. The material treated in the book should be of interest to historians of Judaism and Christianity, Talmudists, and scholars and readers interested in the cultural study of.
English Articles “Apartheid Comparative Religion in the Second Century: Some Theory and a Case Study in Reading,” in Theory and the Pre-Modern Text, The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 36.1 (Winter, 2006), 3-34. “De/Re/constructing Midrash,” in Current Trends in the Study of Midrash, ed. Carol Bakhos (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2006), 299-321. “Why Is Rabbi Yoḥanan a Woman?;, or a Queer Marriage Gone Bad: ‘Platonic Love’ in the Talmud,” in Authorizing Marriage?: Canon, Tradition, and Critique in the Blessing of Same-sex Unions, ed. Mark Jordan (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006), 52-67 and 178-184. “Anecdotal Evidence: The Yavneh Conundrum, Birkat Hamminim, and the Problem of Talmudic Historiography,” in The Mishna in Contemporary Perspective, ed. Alan J. Avery-Peck and Jacob Neusner (2006). “What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Platonic Love,” in Toward a Theology of Eros: Transfiguring Passion at the Limits of Discipline, ed. Virginia Burrus and Catherine Keller (New York: Fordham University Press: 2006), pp. 3-22 and 375-384. “Talmud and “Fathers of the Church”: Theologies and the Making of Books,” in The Early Christian Book, ed. by William E. Klingshirn and Linda Safran (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2007), pp. 69-85. “Hellenism in Jewish Babylonia,” in The Cambridge Companion to Rabbinic Literature, eds. Charlotte Fonrobert, Martin Jaffee (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), pp. 336-363. “Philo, Origen, and the Rabbis on Divine Speech and Interpretation,” Essays in Honor of David W. Johnson, ed. James E. Goehring and Janet A. Timbie (Washington, D. C., Catholic University Press, 2007), pp. 113-129. “Against Rabbinic Theology: Textual Reasoning and the Jewish Theology of Sex,” in Queer Theology:Rethinking the Western Body, Ed. Gerard Loughlin (Oxford, Blackwell, 2007, pp. 131-146. “The Christian Invention.
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View HTML Download PDF Visions, Prophecy, and Politics in the Book of Revelation by Elaine Pagels (review) From: Common Knowledge Volume 19, Issue 3, Fall 2013 p. 576 In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: This quite marvelous book is marred by a terribly misleading title. It is not a reading of the Book of Revelation, of which we have, by now, many, but something much more important and interesting, namely, an exploration of the way that Revelation shaped and formed early Christianity and thence the Christianity of our world today. It would be difficult, without Elaine Pagels’s own skills, to sum up in a hundred words or so the achievement of this book. Let me just say that it is the best short account of the formation of Orthodox Christianity that I have ever come across. Among the themes that Pagels manages to address are the struggle over prophetic and episcopal versions of Christianity in the second century and into the third, the exclusion of the so-called Gnostics from the Christian fold by such figures as Irenaeus, and then later, in the fourth century, the Nicene Controversy. She argues (almost compellingly) that the Nag Hammadi Library was the library of an “orthodox” Pachomian monastery nearby. In all of these central, crucial moments in the invention of the church, the Book of Revelation was there, as Pagels brilliantly shows. Two other qualifications other than the title: the notes are very difficult to use since one has to keep paging back and forth even to find out to what chapter a given note belongs, and there is no bibliography, while books and articles are frequently listed in shortened form (all my complaints directed at the publisher!). Daniel Boyarin   Daniel Boyarin is Taubman Professor of Talmudic Culture and professor of rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Border Lines: The.
Talmudical hermeneutics (Hebrew: מידות שהתורה נדרשת בהן) defines the rules and methods for the investigation and exact determination of the meaning of the Scriptures, within the framework of Rabbinic Judaism. This includes, among others, the rules by which the requirements of the Oral Law and the Halakha are derived from and established by the written law.[1] These rules relate to: grammar and exegesis the interpretation of certain words and letters and apparently superfluous and/or missing words or letters, and prefixes and suffixes the interpretation of those letters which, in certain words, are provided with points the interpretation of the letters in a word according to their numerical value (see Gematria) the interpretation of a word by dividing it into two or more words (see Notarikon) the interpretation of a word according to its consonantal form or according to its vocalization the interpretation of a word by transposing its letters or by changing its vowels the logical deduction of a halakhah from a Scriptural text or from another law[1] Contents 1 Classes of rules 2 Dates of the rules 3 Rules of Rabbi Akiva and Rabbi Ishmael 3.1 Superfluity in the text 3.2 Vocalization of words 3.3 Juxtaposition of sections 3.4 Fusion of methodologies 4 Detailed rules 4.1 Kal va-chomer (קל וחומר) 4.2 Gezerah shavah (גזירה שוה) 4.3 Binyan ab mi-katuv echad (בנין אב מכתוב אחד) 4.4 Binyan ab mi-shene ketubim (בנין אב משני כתובים) 4.5 Kelal u-perat and perat u-kelal (כלל ופרט ופרט וכלל) 4.6 Ka-yotze bo mi-makom acher (כיוצא בו ממקום אחר) 4.7 Davar ha-lamed me-inyano (דבר הלמד מעניינו) 5 See also 6 References Classes of rules[edit] Compilations of such hermeneutic rules were made in the earliest times. The tannaitic tradition recognizes three such collections,[1] namely: the 7 Rules of Hillel[1][2] (baraita at the beginning of Sifra; Avot of Rabbi Natan xxxvii.) the 13 Rules of.