The Bakhtinian chronotope in the destruction narrative in the Fathers of Rabbi Nathan B
The unique, composite historical narrative of the destruction of the Second Temple in the Fathers of Rabbi Nathan, Version B, is explored using the frame of Mikhail Bakhtin’s theoretical notions of dialogic discourse and the chronotope. The analysis reveals a redactional artistic impulse that has co...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2022
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Journal of Jewish studies
Year: 2022, Volume: 73, Issue: 2, Pages: 305-332 |
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| Summary: | The unique, composite historical narrative of the destruction of the Second Temple in the Fathers of Rabbi Nathan, Version B, is explored using the frame of Mikhail Bakhtin’s theoretical notions of dialogic discourse and the chronotope. The analysis reveals a redactional artistic impulse that has composed a coherent narrative sequence from numerous discrete units of texts of different genres and a sustained dialogic interaction between their chronotopic motifs, effected in a variety of ways. Three different chronotopes, or underlying assumptions of the relationship between place, time and character agency, are explored: historical, Midrashic and the rabbinic romance chronotope. Ultimately, the narrative is dominated by the historical chronotope, which assumes human proactive agency, and the marginalization of divine agency, in historical causation. |
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| ISSN: | 2056-6689 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of Jewish studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.18647/3544/jjs-2022 |