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Author Hasan-Rokem, Galit.

Title Tales of the neighborhood : Jewish narrative dialogues in late antiquity / Galit Hasan-Rokem.

Publication Info. Berkeley : University of California Press, [2003]
©2003

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 208 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series The Taubman lectures in Jewish studies ; 4
Taubman lectures in Jewish studies ; 4.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-190) and indexes.
Contents 1. Erecting the fence : texts, contexts, theories, and strategies -- 2. Peeping through a hole : comparing and borrowing -- 3. Building the gate, or Neighbors make good fences -- 4. The evasive center : Hadrian, the old man, the neighbor, and the rabbinic rhetoric of the empire -- 5. Between us : a conclusion.
Summary Showing that religion is shaped to some extent by the ordinary events of everyday life, this text focuses on the 'neighbourhood' of the Galilee, bringing to life the riddles parables and folktales passed down in Rabbinic stories from the first half of the first millennium of the Common Era.
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Subject Jews -- Israel -- Galilee -- Folklore.
Jews.
Israel -- Galilee.
Genre/Form Folklore.
Subject Jewish legends -- History and criticism.
Jewish legends.
Galilee (Israel) -- Social life and customs.
Rabbinical literature -- History and criticism.
Rabbinical literature.
Women in rabbinical literature.
Women in rabbinical literature.
Folklore in rabbinical literature.
Folklore in rabbinical literature.
Indexed Term Humaniora Etnologi og folkloristik.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Hasan-Rokem, Galit. Tales of the neighborhood. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2003 0520234537 (DLC) 2002011200 (OCoLC)50243449
ISBN 9780520928947 (electronic book)
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9780585466002 (electronic book)
9780520234536 (alkaline paper)
0520234537 (alkaline paper)
1597349305
9781597349307
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9781282356870
0520234537 (alkaline paper)