2 Storytelling and Meaning: Theory and Practice of Narrative Variants in Religious Texts

In: Religious Stories in Transformation: Conflict, Revision and Reception
Author:
Eli Yassif
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https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004334816_003

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Series:  Jewish and Christian Perspectives Series, Volume: 31
Cover Religious Stories in Transformation: Conflict, Revision and Reception
E-Book ISBN:
9789004334816
Publisher:
Brill
Print Publication Date:
01 Jan 2016
Preliminary Material
1 Introduction
3 The Adamic Myth from Canaan
4 The Development of the Adamic Myth in Genesis Rabbah
5 First Man, First Twins: The Origins of Humankind in Zoroastrian Thought
6 The Fall of Iblīs and its Enochic Background
7 Interreligious Aspects in the Narrative of the Burial of Adam in Pirkei de-Rabbi Eliezer
8 Aggadic Motifs in the Story of Jonah: A Study of Interaction between Religions
9 Jewish Legal Practice and Piety in the Acts of the Apostles: Apologetics or Identity Marker?
10 Bound in Righteousness: Variances and Versions of the Aqedah Story in Jewish Hymnography (Piyyut)
11 The Biblical Stories about the Prophet Elijah in Early Syriac-Speaking Christianity
12 Sūrat Yūsuf (xii) and Some of Its Possible Jewish Sources
13 The Well of Miriam and Its Mythological Forebears
14 Bethlehem and the Birth of the Messiah in the Eyes of a Byzantine Jewish Storyteller: Rebuke or Consolation
15 The Infallibility of the Prophets and the Fallible Jesus in Islam: On the Transformation of a Jewish Story into an Islamic Anti-Christian Polemic
16 On Marrying and Divorcing a Demon: Marriage and Divorce Themes in the Jewish, Christian, and Pagan World
17 Ascension Traditions in Jerusalem
18 Waiting for the Harvest: Trajectories of Rabbinic and “Christian” Parables
19 Reading Chad Gadya through the Kaleidoscope of Time
20 Ẓemaḥ Ẓaddik by Leon of Modena: Between Two Worlds
21 “We do not pray, we invent”: Jews, Judaism, and Jewish Mysticism in the Video Game “Wolfenstein: The New Order”
22 Power Women: The Retelling of Sacred Narratives in an Interreligious Context
23 Biblical Murals in Medieval Frisian Churches
24 Sinai—The Mountain of God
Index of Names
Index of Sources

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