The Figure of Joseph in Post-Biblical Jewish Literature (Arbeiten Zur Geschichte Des Antiken Judentums Und Des Urchristentums, No 16)
The Figure of Joseph in Post-Biblical Jewish Literature (Arbeiten Zur Geschichte Des Antiken Judentums Und Des Urchristentums, No 16)
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Book Description
This book is a comparative study in the hermeneutics of the ancient interpretations of the biblical Joseph story. Assuming that every interpretation results from a creative encounter between the ultimately open text of Scripture and the specific thought world of the interpreter, it examines the particular way in which each exegete construes the biblical outline of Joseph's character. Paying special attention to the literary nature of the sources, the study begins with an analysis of the narrative methods and the hermeneutic potential of the biblical story, and then proceeds to the inter-testamental evidence. The central concern of this study is to compare the different interpretations of the philosopher Philo, the historian Josephus and the Midrash Genesis Rabbah. These sources do not only range over a considerable amount of time but significantly derive respectively from the Greek and Hebrew cultural realm. Consequently, their figures of Joseph fulfil distinctly different purposes, ranging from an idealisation of Joseph as a Hellenistic politician to autobiographical apologetics and religious instruction.
The Figure of Joseph in Post-Biblical Jewish Literature (Arbeiten Zur Geschichte Des Antiken Judentums Und Des Urchristentums, No 16),Maren Niehoff,Brill Academic Publishers,900409556X,(Son of Jacob),Bible - Study - Old Testament,Bible.,Biography,History and criticism,Interior Design - General,Joseph,Judaism - General,O.T.,Old Testament Commentary,Patriarchs (Bible),Religion - Biblical Studies,Sociology,Contributions in the biography of Joseph, son of Jacob,Josephus, Flavius,Philo
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- The Jews in Rome: 1536-1551 (Studia Post-Biblica)
- The Karaite Tradition of Arabic Bible Translation: A Linguistic and Exegetical Study of Karaite Translations of the Pentateuch from the Tenth and Eleventh ... C.E. (Etudes Sur Le Judaisme Medieval)
- The Life of Leontios Patriarch of Jerusalem: Text, Translation, Commentary (The Medieval Mediterranean : Peoples, Economies and Cultures, 400-1453,)
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- The Many Canons of Tibetan Buddhism: Piats 2000 : Tibetan Studies : Proceedings of the Ninth Seminar of the International Association for Tibetan Studies, Leiden 2000 (Brill's Tibetan Studies Library)
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