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Book SynopsisThis 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.
Trade ReviewDr. Ulmer has accurately transcribed and concisely annotated her definitive work. No discussion of Pesiqta Rabbati can by-pass her monumental contribution to scholarship which has rescued long forgotten and indispensable manuscripts. -- Professor Herbert W. Basser, Queen's University, Canada
The author of this book probably knows more about the Pesiqta Rabbati than any other scholar living today. The work belongs on the bookshelves of any serious student of Rabbinic midrash. -- Professor John T. Townsend, Professor Emeritus of New Testament, Judaism, and Biblical Languages at the Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge, MA, and Lectur
These excellent volumes on Pesiqta Rabbati doubtless will serve the rabbinic scholarly world for many generations. -- Professor Isaac Kalimi, National Endowment for the Humanities Senior Fellow, W.F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, Jerusalem, Israel
The great value of these editions is to provide scholars with the text of all the witnesses, eventually leaving scholars the responsibility of reconstructing or critically choosing the 'best reading'. I thank the editor for this splendid synopsis. In the future all the works on PR will be based on this edition, both translation?and critical studies. If future scholars try to establish the history of a single homily or if they try to design the whole process of accretion in the homiletical canon or if they try to uncover the intention of different 'editions' in the same process, all the basic material is supplied in this edition for theee -- Professor Miguel Pérez Fernández * Journal for the Study of Judaism in the Persian Hellenistic and Roman Period *
The great value of these editions is to provide scholars with the text of all the witnesses, eventually leaving scholars the responsibility of reconstructing or critically choosing the 'best reading'. I thank the editor for this splendid synopsis. In the future all the works on PR will be based on this edition, both translation…and critical studies. If future scholars try to establish the history of a single homily or if they try to design the whole process of accretion in the homiletical canon or if they try to uncover the intention of different 'editions' in the same process, all the basic material is supplied in this edition for the -- Professor Miguel Pérez Fernández * Journal for the Study of Judaism in the Persian Hellenistic and Roman Period *
Table of ContentsPart 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Pesiqta Rabbati 1 Chapter 3 Pesiqta Rabbati 2 Chapter 4 Pesiqta Rabbati 3 Chapter 5 Pesiqta Rabbati 4 Chapter 6 Pesiqta Rabbati 5 Chapter 7 Pesiqta Rabbati 6 Chapter 8 Pesiqta Rabbati 7 Chapter 9 Pesiqta Rabbati 8 Chapter 10 Pesiqta Rabbati 9 Chapter 11 Pesiqta Rabbati 10 Chapter 12 Pesiqta Rabbati 11 Chapter 13 Pesiqta Rabbati 12 Chapter 14 Pesiqta Rabbati 13 Chapter 15 Pesiqta Rabbati 14 Chapter 16 Pesiqta Rabbati 15/1 Chapter 17 Pesiqta Rabbati 15 Chapter 18 Pesiqta Rabbati 16 Chapter 19 Pesiqta Rabbati 17 Chapter 20 Pesiqta Rabbati 18 Chapter 21 Pesiqta Rabbati 19 Chapter 22 Pesiqta Rabbati 20 Chapter 23 Pesiqta Rabbati 21 Chapter 24 Pesiqta Rabbati 22 Chapter 25 Pesiqta Rabbati 23 Chapter 26 Pesiqta Rabbati 23/24 Chapter 27 Pesiqta Rabbati 24
