Re-Presenting Texts: Jewish and Black Biblical Interpretation

Published by Gorgias Press 2013

Re-Presenting Texts

Jewish and Black Biblical Interpretation

Edited by: W. David Nelson
With contributions by: Rachel Adelman , Rebecca Alpert , Wil Gafney , Jamal-Dominique Hopkins , Laura S. Lieber , W. David Nelson and Stacy Davis

In the series Judaism in Context

https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463235512

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About this book

This is the fifth issue of Proceedings of the Midrash Section at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature published in this series, and contains six papers on Jewish and Black biblical hermeneutics with regard to Rabbinic Midrash.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Introduction Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
1. Eurocentrism: The Tie That Binds Black Christian and White Jewish Biblical Scholarship W. David Nelson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. The Noahic Curse in Rabbinic Literature: Racialized Hermeneutics or Ethnocentric Exegesis Jamal-Dominique Hopkins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
3. Translating Rabbinic Texts on the Curse of Ham: What We Learn from Charles Copher and His Critics Rebecca Alpert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
4. It Does Matter If You’re Black or White, Too-Black or Too-White, But Mestizo is Just Right Wil Gafney Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
5. Response to W. David Nelson, Wil Gafney, Jamal-Dominique Hopkins, and Rebecca Alpert Stacy Davis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
6. Rejoinder: Black and Jewish Hermeneutics Rivka Ulmer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
7. Preempting the Redemption: The Bones of the Ephraimites and the Messianic Pretender in Midrash Rachel Adelman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
8. The Poetry of Creation: Zevadiah and Amittai’s Yotzerot le-Ḥatan (“Groom’s Yotzers”) Laura Lieber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103

Languages: English, Hebrew
Publisher: Gorgias Press
Pages
- Main content: 148

eBook

Published: July 24, 2013
ISBN: 9781463235512