Midrash and Multiplicity(English, Electronic book text, Sacks Steven Daniel)

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Midrash and Multiplicity(English, Electronic book text, Sacks Steven Daniel) is written by Sacks Steven Daniel and published by De Gruyter. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 311021282X (ISBN 10) and 9783110212822 (ISBN 13).

Pirke de-Rabbi Eliezer represents a late development in "midrash", or classical rabbinic interpretation, that has enlightened, intrigued and frustrated scholars of Jewish culture for the past two centuries. Pirke de-Rabbi Eliezer's challenge to scholarship includes such issues as the work's authorship and authenticity, an asymmetrical literary structure as well as its ambiguous relationship with a variety of rabbinic, Islamic and Hellenistic works of interpretation. This cluster of issues has contributed to the confusion about the work's structure, origins and identity. Midrash and Multiplicity addresses the problems raised by this equivocal work, and uses Pirke de-Rabbi Eliezer in order to assess the nature of "midrash", and the renewal of Jewish interpretive culture, during its transition to the medieval era of the early "Geonim".