TY - BOOK ID - 127350602 TI - Rabbinic parodies of Jewish and Christian literature PY - 2011 SN - 1280042516 9786613517159 3161514726 3161506472 PB - Tùˆbingen : Mohr Siebeck, DB - UniCat KW - Christian literature, Early KW - Rabbinical literature KW - History and criticism. KW - Talmud KW - Sermon on the mount KW - Midrash KW - Rabbinic Judaism KW - Rabbinic Parodies KW - Antike KW - Religionswissenschaft KW - Neues Testament UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:127350602 AB - Hauptbeschreibung Holger M. Zellentin seeks to probe how far the classical rabbis took their literary playfulness in order to advance their religious and societal causes. Building on the literary approaches to rabbinic Judaism of the past decades, this work considers the rabbis' attitudes towards their Byzantine and Sassanian surroundings. The author examines how the Talmud and Midrash in Palestine and Persia repeat previous texts with comical difference, oscillating between reverence and satire. The result shows rabbinic society and its literature engaging in the great debates of t ER -