Web of life <subTitle>Folklore and midrash in rabbinic literature</subTitle> </titleInfo> <titleInfo> <title/> </titleInfo> <name type="personal"> <namePart>Hasan-Rokem, Galit</namePart> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> </name> <name type="personal"> <namePart/> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> <role> <roleTerm type="text">Author</roleTerm> </role> </name> <typeOfResource>text</typeOfResource> <originInfo> <place> <placeTerm type="code" authority="marccountry">9:2</placeTerm> </place> <place> <placeTerm type="text">USA</placeTerm> </place> <publisher>Stanford University Press</publisher> <dateIssued>2000</dateIssued> <issuance>monographic</issuance> </originInfo> <language> <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">0 e</languageTerm> </language> <language> <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">ng</languageTerm> </language> <physicalDescription> <extent>287tr.</extent> <extent>Paperback</extent> <extent>24cm</extent> </physicalDescription> <abstract>Web of Life weaves its suggestive interpretation of Jewish culture in the Palestine of late antiquity on the warp of a singular, breathtakingly tragic, and sublime rabbinic text, Lamentations Rabbah. The textual analyses that form the core of the book are informed by a range of theoretical paradigms rarely brought to bear on rabbinic literature: structural analysis of mythologies and folktales, performative approaches to textual production, feminist theory, psychoanalytical analysis of culture, cultural criticism, and folk narrative genre analysis.The concept of context as the hermeneutic basis for literary interpretation reactivates the written text and subverts the hierarchical structures with which it has been traditionally identified.</abstract> <note type="statement of responsibility">Galit Hasan-Rokem</note> <subject> <topic>Folklore in rabbinical literature</topic> </subject> <classification authority="ddc">296.14206</classification> <classification authority="ddc">G159-H34</classification> <identifier type="isbn">0804732272</identifier> <identifier type="uri">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/ImageCover/2022/11/4/3216.jpg</identifier> <location> <url displayLabel="Cover Image">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/ImageCover/2022/11/4/3216.jpg</url> </location> <recordInfo> <recordCreationDate encoding="marc">2022-1</recordCreationDate> <recordChangeDate encoding="iso8601">20260119070822.0</recordChangeDate> </recordInfo> </mods>