Zekhut Imahot: Mothers, Fathers, and Ancestral Merit in Rabbinic Sources
Rabbinic sources develop the theological concept of ancestral merit, the idea that the merits of parents, especially fore-parents, continue to offer their descendants favor in the eyes of God. The term zekhut avot is often translated as “merit of the fathers.” In this article, I ask: to whom does “a...
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| Формат: | Электронный ресурс Статья |
| Язык: | Английский |
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2018
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Journal for the study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic, and Roman period
Год: 2018, Том: 49, Выпуск: 2, Страницы: 263-296 |
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B Семья (мотив) B ancestral merit mothers fathers matriarchs patriarchs rabbis Talmud midrash Rachel Mary B Раввинская литература B Предки B Мать (мотив) |
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| Итог: | Rabbinic sources develop the theological concept of ancestral merit, the idea that the merits of parents, especially fore-parents, continue to offer their descendants favor in the eyes of God. The term zekhut avot is often translated as “merit of the fathers.” In this article, I ask: to whom does “avot,” in the term zekhut avot, refer? I argue that the concept of zekhut avot encompassed the biblical matriarchs in addition to the patriarchs, though this fact has often gone unnoticed or been deemphasized in modern scholarship, and that the terms “maʿaseh imahot” and “zekhut imahot” appear alongside “maʿaseh avot” and “zekhut avot” in the sources. I argue further that the figure of Rachel stands most prominently among the matriarchs whose merit assists her descendants, parallel to Abraham’s binding of Isaac as the paradigmatic event that accrued patriarchal merit. I conclude by offering historical and literary reasons for this development in rabbinic sources. |
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| Объем: | Online-Ressource |
| ISSN: | 1570-0631 |
| Второстепенные работы: | Enthalten in: Journal for the study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic, and Roman period
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15700631-12491201 |
