Sentences with phrase «jewish midrash»

Consider this ancient Jewish midrash.

Not exact matches

Aronofsky sees his interpretation of the Genesis story as part of the midrash tradition, in which Jewish teachers create stories meant to explain the deeper truths of the Tanakh.

The midrash rejoins here texts in the Old Testament and in the Jewish tradition, which are attentive to the risks of a cult of the nation and the temptation to a mythology on the Ûbermensch.

Messer leads the Simchat Torah Beit Midrash congregation in Colorado, which describes itself as a community of Jewish and non-Jewish believers in «Yeshua,» or Jesus Christ.

Classical midrash — Jewish exegetical commentary — explores many facets of Esther.

Kaplan's analysis of Jewish nationalism begins with the Bible, the Talmud, the Midrash, and medieval Jewish theology, while simultaneously freely utilizing modern sociological and philosophical insights.

His use of parables, his midrash, and his yoke all reflect very typical Jewish tradition.

«narration», for it achieved its aim very often by telling a story).9 Since the Semitic mind was quite unaccustomed to our kind of philosophical and abstract thought, midrash haggadah fulfilled a very important function in Jewish education.

This form of proclamation came naturally to Jewish minds accustomed to the free development of midrash haggadah.

That type which was more homiletical and devotional, intended to strengthen conviction, and to aid the understanding of the Jewish heritage, was called midrash haggadah (lit.

This is the main point of the great array of parallels to Jesus» teaching adduced from the ancient Jewish tradition and literature, for example in Strack and Billerbeck's Commentary on the New Testament from Talmud and Midrash.

From «Legends of the Jews», which is a compilation of a vast amount of aggadah, i.e., exegetical texts in the classical rabbinic literature of Judaism, from the Mishnah, the two Talmuds and Midrash compiled by Rabbi Louis Ginzberg (1873 — 1953), who was a Talmudist and leading figure in the Conservative Movement of Judaism of the twentieth century who taught at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (JTS) in New York City for half a century until his death in 1953:

The almost - sacrifice of Isaac is foregrounded; Christ on the Cross, the tree of new life, is the background, a poignant midrash on its Jewish meaning.

For Jewish fundamentalism, it is not the literal meaning of the biblical text that is normative, but the rabbinic exegesis embodied in the Talmud and the Midrash.

Julie is a graduate of certification programs in teaching the body and various movement disciplines: in Iyengar - based yoga from the Advanced Studies Program at the Yoga Room in Berkeley; in Yoga and Jewish Spirituality and in Dance Midrash from the Elat Chayyim Center for Jewish Spirituality; and in Movement - based Expressive Arts Education and Therapy from Tamalpa Institute.