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Figure of Joseph in Post-Biblical Jewish Literature

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      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.
      Format: Hardback CONTRIBUTORS: Niehoff EAN: 9789004095564 COUNTRY: Netherlands PAGES: WEIGHT: 408 g HEIGHT: 235 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Brill DATE PUBLISHED: 1992-08-01 CITY: GENRE: ARCHITECTURE / Interior Design / General, RELIGION / Biblical Studies / Old Testament / General, RELIGION / History, RELIGION / Judaism / General WIDTH: 155 cm SPINE:

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      Ancient (Classical) Greek, Hebrew, Relating to Jewish people and groups, Translation and interpretation, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Social groups: religious groups and communities, History of religion, Judaism, Christianity

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      Maren Niehoff studied Judaism, Philosophy and Literature in Berlin, Jerusalem, and Oxford. He is Junior Fellow at Harvard since 1989. Publications include articles in various journals.
      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.
      Format: Hardback CONTRIBUTORS: Niehoff EAN: 9789004095564 COUNTRY: Netherlands PAGES: WEIGHT: 408 g HEIGHT: 235 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Brill DATE PUBLISHED: 1992-08-01 CITY: GENRE: ARCHITECTURE / Interior Design / General, RELIGION / Biblical Studies / Old Testament / General, RELIGION / History, RELIGION / Judaism / General WIDTH: 155 cm SPINE:

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      Ancient (Classical) Greek, Hebrew, Relating to Jewish people and groups, Translation and interpretation, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Social groups: religious groups and communities, History of religion, Judaism, Christianity

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      Maren Niehoff studied Judaism, Philosophy and Literature in Berlin, Jerusalem, and Oxford. He is Junior Fellow at Harvard since 1989. Publications include articles in various journals.

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