Tales of the neighborhood : Jewish narrative dialogues in late antiquity / Galit Hasan-Rokem.
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TextSeries: Taubman lectures in Jewish studies ; 4.Publication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, �2003.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 208 pages)Content type: - text
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- Jews -- Israel -- Galilee -- Folklore
- Jewish legends -- History and criticism
- Galilee (Israel) -- Social life and customs
- Rabbinical literature -- History and criticism
- Women in rabbinical literature
- Folklore in rabbinical literature
- Jews -- Israel -- Galilee
- Legends, Jewish -- History and criticism
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Folklore & Mythology
- RELIGION -- Judaism -- General
- Folklore in rabbinical literature
- Jewish legends
- Jews
- Manners and customs
- Rabbinical literature
- Women in rabbinical literature
- Israel -- Galilee
- Jodendom
- Feministische literatuurkritiek
- Rabbijnse literatuur
- Legenden
- Late oudheid
- Galilea
- Humaniora Etnologi og folkloristik
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- GR286.G35 H37 2003eb
Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-190) and indexes.
1. Erecting the fence : texts, contexts, theories, and strategies -- 2. Peeping through a hole : comparing and borrowing -- 3. Building the gate, or Neighbors make good fences -- 4. The evasive center : Hadrian, the old man, the neighbor, and the rabbinic rhetoric of the empire -- 5. Between us : a conclusion.
Print version record.
Showing that religion is shaped to some extent by the ordinary events of everyday life, this text focuses on the 'neighbourhood' of the Galilee, bringing to life the riddles parables and folktales passed down in Rabbinic stories from the first half of the first millennium of the Common Era.
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