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The Revival of Classical Tongue
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ISBN: 3110879107 9783110879100 9027924953 9789027924957 9789027924957 Year: 2011 Publisher: Berlin Boston


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The return of the repressed
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ISBN: 1282949381 9786612949388 9004180613 9789004180611 9789004170490 9004170499 Year: 2009 Publisher: Leiden Boston Brill

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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.

Hebrew and Zionism
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ISBN: 3110869497 9783110869491 3110169924 9783110169928 9783110169928 3110169932 9783110169935 3110169924 3111870685 Year: 2012 Volume: 5 Publisher: Berlin Boston

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This book observes and critiques controversies on the genesis and the character of Israeli Hebrew. Did it emerge through revival? Did Ben-Yehuda play a role in it? Is Hebrew a normal language now? The hegemonic ideology of the revival of Hebrew is shown to have been harmonious with various Zionist streams, as well as with its rival, Canaanism. The effects of revivalism are evaluated, and an argument is made in favor of non-revivalist alternatives in linguistics and in language education.


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Pirqei deRabbi Eliezer : structure, coherence, intertextuality
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ISSN: 18716636 ISBN: 9789004333116 9004333118 9789004333123 9004333126 Year: 2017 Volume: 96 Publisher: Leiden Boston Brill

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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.


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Eliezer Schweid
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ISBN: 9004249796 9789004249790 9789004234840 9004234845 9789004235076 9004235078 Year: 2013 Publisher: Boston Brill

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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.


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Make yourself a teacher
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ISBN: 0295801786 9780295801780 9780295991283 0295991283 9780295991290 0295991291 Year: 2011 Publisher: Seattle University of Washington Press

Eliezer Ben Hyrcanus : the tradition and the man
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ISBN: 9004037535 9004037543 9789004037540 9789004037533 900466792X Year: 1973 Volume: v. 3-4 Publisher: Leiden: Brill,

The struggle for utopia : Rodchenko, Lissitzky, Moholy-Nagy : 1917-1946
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ISBN: 0226505154 Year: 1997 Publisher: Chicago ; London University of Chicago Press

Legacy of night, the literary universe of Elie Wiesel
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ISBN: 1438402791 9781438402796 0873955897 9780873955898 0873955900 9780873955904 Year: 1982 Publisher: Albany State University of New York Press


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The struggle for understanding : Elie Wiesel's literary works
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ISBN: 1438475470 1438475454 1438475462 Year: 2019 Publisher: Albany, New York : State University of New York Press,

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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"--

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