Pesiqta Rabbati: A Synoptic Edition of Pesiqta Rabbati Based Upon All Extant Manuscripts and the Editio Princeps (Volume 2) (Studies in Judaism, Volume 2) - Softcover

Ulmer, Rivka

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0761843248 ISBN 13: 9780761843245

Publisher: University Press of America, 2008

Synopsis

This book is a reprint of the first publication of the complete manuscript of Pesiqta Rabbati, Volumes I-III (1997-2002), a major rabbinic work from the Land of Israel from the 5th-6th century.

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About the Author:

Rivka Ulmer received her PhD in Judaic Studies from Goethe Universität in Frankfurt am Main with a dissertation in midrash. Ulmer teaches at Bucknell University. She was the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Chair in Jewish Studies from 2002-2007 and is now Associate Professor of Jewish Studies. Ulmer's research focuses upon midrashic literature; she is founder and co-chair of the Midrash Section of the Society of Biblical Literature.

Review:

Prof. Ulmer's edition of the Pesiqta Rabbati, one of the most important and beautiful witnesses to the ancient Jewish art of Bible interpretation, breaks new ground in making available to the public all key textual recessions at a glance and in full. Prof. Ulmer brings to this famous text her long-standing scholarship on Midrash, as well as her literary sensibility and philological meticulousness. The edition has been a model of clarity and usability since it first appeared. (Professor Alexander Samely, University of Manchester, UK)

Summarizes the research and explains the significance to religious studies and related fields of having access to an updated synoptic edition―the first since the 19th century: as a work of literature, for its halakhic (legal) material, and to elucidate the origins of distinct Jewish and Christian groups. (Reference and Research Book News, February 1998)

In her extensive introduction, Prof. Ulmer discusses the work's dating and textual transmission, since it grew by accretion, other studies and suggested research, the text-witnesses, printed editions, modern scholarship, extant translations, methodology utilized in preparing her own edition, and the rationale for presenting it synoptically, namely the absence of a reliable base text. (Professor Louis H. Feldman, Yeshiva University, New York, Old Testament Abstracts 21 (1998))

About this edition

• Publisher: University Press of America
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0761843248
• ISBN 13: 9780761843245
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 518