Reimagining the Bible: The Storytelling of the Rabbis

Author: Schwartz, Howard

Brand: Oxford University Press, USA

Color: Blue

Edition: 1

Number Of Pages: 304

EAN: 9780195115116

Release Date: 15-01-1998

Package Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.1 x 0.8 inches

Languages: English

Binding: paperback

Part Number: bibliography

Details: Reimagining the Bible collects a dozen essays by Howard Schwartz. Together the essays present a coherent theory of the way in which each successive phase of Jewish literature has drawn upon and reimagined the previous ones. The book is organized into four sections: The Ancient Models; The Folk Tradition; Mythic Echoes; and Modern Jewish Literature and the Ancient Models. Within these divisions, each of the essays focuses on a specific genre, ranging from Torah and Aggadah to Kabbalah, fairy tales, and the modern Yiddish stories of S.Y. Agnon and Isaac Bashevis Singer.

Arguing the important thesis that there is a continuity in Jewish literature which extends from the Biblical era to our own times--a period of over 3,000 years--this collection also serves as a guide to the history of that literature, and to the genres it comprises.