Current Trends in the Study of Midrash. Edited by Carol Bakhos
I was sitting next to a brutally funny colleague recently as he skimmed and annotated orally an introduction attempting to impute to a collection of essays monographic unity. I vowed to race home and e-mail the publisher of my own forthcoming collection: delete introduction and replace with ‘An arbi...
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Format: | Electronic Review |
Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2008
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2008, Volume: 59, Issue: 1, Pages: 312-316 |
Review of: | Current trends in the study of midrash (Leiden : Brill, 2006) (Lipton, Diana)
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Summary: | I was sitting next to a brutally funny colleague recently as he skimmed and annotated orally an introduction attempting to impute to a collection of essays monographic unity. I vowed to race home and e-mail the publisher of my own forthcoming collection: delete introduction and replace with ‘An arbitrary selection of my diverse thoughts over the past seven years’. (I have not done it yet.) In her introduction to Current Trends in the Study of Midrash, Carol Bakhos is touchingly honest on this score: ‘What, if anything, these articles ostensibly have in common other than the fact that they are concerned with some aspect of midrashic studies is that they were written more or less coevally. |
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ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flm142 |