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This study analyzes mythic narratives, found in the 8th century midrashic text Pirqe de-Rabbi Eliezer (PRE), that were excluded, or ‘repressed’, from the rabbinic canon, while preserved in the Pseudepigrapha of the Second Temple period. Examples include the role of the Samael (i.e. Satan) in the Garden of Eden, the myth of the Fallen Angels, Elijah as zealot, and Jonah as a Messianic figure. The questions are why these exegetical traditions were excluded, in what context did they resurface, and how did the author have access to these apocryphal texts. The book addresses the assumptions that underlie classic rabbinic literature and later breaches of that exegetical tradition in PRE, while engaging in a study of the genre, dating, and status of PRE as apocalyptic eschatology.

Rabbinical literature --- History and criticism. --- Pirkei de-Rabbi Eliezer. --- Bible.

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In Pirqei deRabbi Eliezer: Structure, Coherence, Intertextuality Katharina E. Keim offers a description of the literary character of Pirqei deRabbi Eliezer , an enigmatic work of the late-eighth-to-early-ninth centuries CE. Katharina E. Keim explores the work’s distinctive literary features through an analysis of its structure and coherence. These literary features, when taken together with the work’s intertextual relationships with antecedent and contemporaneous Christian and Jewish (rabbinic and non-rabbinic) texts, reveal Pirqei deRabbi Eliezer to be an innovative work, and throw light on a new turn in Jewish literature following the rise of Islam.

Pirkei de-Rabbi Eliezer --- Language, style. --- Criticism, Textual.

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This volume features Eliezer Schweid’s philosophy of Judaism for a secular age. The volume brings together four of Schweid’s most original and influential philosophical essays and an interview with him that together express his fundamental outlook: the faith of a secular Jew, freely choosing loyalty to his or her national culture and drawing on Jewish heritage to inform how to act responsibly toward one’s neighbor, one’s people, the world, and God. The themes span the gamut of Schweid’s life work: the existential loneliness of the modern Jew; Judaism as a culture; faith in light of the Holocaust; and appreciation for secular humanism with awareness of its shortcomings, given the enduring legacy of the Jewish biblical heritage.

Jewish philosophy. --- Philosophy, Medieval. --- PHILOSOPHY / Eastern --- Medieval philosophy --- Scholasticism --- Jews --- Philosophy, Jewish --- Philosophy, Israeli --- Philosophy --- Schweid, Eliezer --- Shvaid, Eliʻezer --- Shvid, Eliʻezer --- Shweid, E. --- שביד, אליעזר --- שבייד, אליאזר --- שבייד, אליעזר --- שבייד, א. --- Teachings. --- Shvaid, Eliʻezer, --- Shvid, Eliʻezer, --- Schweid, Eliezer,

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Jewish law --- Religion --- Philosophy & Religion --- Judaism --- History --- Eliezer ben Hyrcanus. --- Eliʻezer ben Hurḳanos --- Eliʻezer, --- Eliezer, --- Hurḳanos, Eliʻezer ben --- Hyrcanus, Eliezer ben --- Hyrcanus, Liezer ben --- Liezer ben Hyrcanus --- אליעזר בן הורקנוס --- אליעזר בן הורקנוס, --- Eliʻezer ben Hurḳanos, --- Hittites. --- Hittite language. --- Hittites --- Festschriften. --- Luwian language. --- Religion. --- Hawkins, John David --- Turkey --- Antiquities. --- Luian language --- Lûish language --- Luvian language --- Anatolian languages --- Extinct languages --- Anniversary volumes --- Commemorative volumes --- Homage volumes --- Jubilee volumes --- Wedding publications --- Essays --- Chatti --- Kheta --- Khita --- Indo-Europeans --- Hawkins, J. D. --- Hawkins, J. David

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"Elie Wiesel (1928-2016) was one of the most important literary voices to emerge from the Holocaust. The Nazis took the lives of most of his family, destroyed the community in which he was raised, and subjected him to ghettoization, imprisonment in Auschwitz and Buchenwald, and a death march. It is remarkable not only that Wiesel survived and found a way to write about his experiences, but that he did so with elegance and profundity. His novels grapple with questions of tradition, memory, trauma, madness, atrocity, and faith. The Struggle for Understanding examines Wiesel's literary, religious, and cultural roots and the indelible impact of the Holocaust on his storytelling. Grouped in sections on Hasidic origins, the role of the Other, theology and tradition, and later works, the chapters cover the entire span of Wiesel's career. Books analyzed include Night, Dawn, The Forgotten, The Gates of the Forest, The Town Beyond the Wall, The Testament, The Sonderberg Case, and Hostage. What emerges is a portrait of Wiesel's work in its full literary richness"--

Wiesel, Elie, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Wiesel, Eliezer, --- Wiezel, Eli, --- Vizel, Eli, --- Weisel, Elie, --- Визель, Эли, --- וויזל, אליעזר --- וויזל, אליעזר, --- וויזל, אליעזר4 --- ווייזעל, אלי, --- וויסל, עליעזר --- ויזל, אלי --- ויזל, אלי,