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9780520234536

Tales of the Neighborhood

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  • ISBN13:

    9780520234536

  • ISBN10:

    0520234537

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2003-02-01
  • Publisher: Univ of California Pr

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Summary

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.

Author Biography

Galit Hasan-Rokem is Max and Margarethe Grunwald Professor of Folklore and Head of the Institute of Jewish Studies at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem.

Table of Contents

Preface ix
Erecting the Fence: Texts, Contexts, Theories, and Strategies
1(27)
Peeping through a Hole: Comparing and Borrowing
28(27)
Building the Gate, or Neighbors Make Good Fences
55(31)
The Evasive Center: Hadrian, the Old Man, the Neighbor, and the Rabbinic Rhetoric of the Empire
86(52)
Between Us: A Conclusion
138(7)
Notes 145(46)
Index of Ancient Sources and Authors 191(4)
General Index 195(10)
Index of Modern Authors 205

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