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Tales of the Neighborhood: Jewish Narrative Dialogues in Late Antiquity

By Galit Hasan-Rokem

Book information

Year
2003
ISBN
0520234537, 9780520234536, 9780585466002
Open Library ID
OL7711471M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
807 kB (826298 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
221\224
Topic
History
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

In this lively and intellectually engaging book, Galit Hasan-Rokem shows that religion is shaped not only in the halls of theological disputation and institutions of divine study, but also in ordinary events of everyday life. Common aspects of human relations offer a major source for the symbols of religious texts and rituals of late antique Judaism as well as its partner in narrative dialogues, early Christianity, Hasan-Rokem argues. Focusing on the "neighborhood" of the Galilee that is the birthplace of many major religious and cultural developments, this book brings 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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