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Ancient Jews, Ancient Gentiles, and Modern
Scholars: Current Issues in the Study of Early Judaism
By Robert
Goldenberg, State University of New York at Stony Brook
To understand any moment in Jewish history we must trace its roots in earlier
Jewish history, but we must also examine its setting in a specific non-Jewish
environment.
Recent Developments in Jewish Thought: the Field
of Midrash
By Ira Robinson,
Concordia University
This paper will review recent trends in academic research of Midrash, the
major exegetical enterprise of ancient and early medieval rabbinic Judaism.
Primarily examining the current state of scholarship on this major area of
Jewish thought in Late Antiquity, it will emphasis the development of
contemporary scholarly viewpoints on ancient rabbinic thought as a whole, and
will include both "halakhic" and "aggadic" midrashim in
its purview. It will deal with issues of changes in academic methodologies
and epistemologies and their influence on the state of scholarship. It will
also examine the implications of these new trends in scholarship in ancient
Jewish thought for the study of Jewish thought as a whole.
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