{"product_id":"midrash-and-multiplicity-pirke-de-rabbi-eliezer-and-the-renewal-of-rabbinic-interpretive-culture-9783110209228","title":"Midrash and Multiplicity: Pirke De-Rabbi Eliezer and the Renewal of Rabbinic Interpretive Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Steven Daniel Sacks\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: de Gruyter\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Judaism - Theology\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePirke de-Rabbi Eliezer\u003c\/em\u003e 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. \u003cem\u003ePirke de-Rabbi Eliezer's\u003c\/em\u003e 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. \u003cem\u003eMidrash and Multiplicity\u003c\/em\u003e addresses the problems raised by this equivocal work, and uses \u003cem\u003ePirke de-Rabbi Eliezer\u003c\/em\u003e 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\".\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"de Gruyter","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47584045695127,"sku":"9783110209228","price":19251.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9783110209228.webp?v=1774953689","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/midrash-and-multiplicity-pirke-de-rabbi-eliezer-and-the-renewal-of-rabbinic-interpretive-culture-9783110209228","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}