Elijah and the rabbis : story and theology /
Through an innovative synthesis of narrative critique, oral-formulaic study, folkloric research, and literary analysis, Kristen H. Lindbeck reads all the Elijah narratives in the Babylonian Talmud and details the rise of a distinct, quasi-angelic figure who takes pleasure in ordinary interaction. Du...
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
2010
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Table of Contents:
- The study of rabbinic narrative
- Oral-formulaic studies and the culture of the Bavli
- Elijah in rabbinic culture and the wider culture of late antiquity
- The three generic groups of Elijah stories
- Elijah from rabbinic times to the twenty-first century
- Appendix: The Elijah stories of the Bavli with translation with significant variant readings.
