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Exodus in the Jewish Experience

Echoes and Reverberations

Edited by Pamela Barmash and W. David Nelson - Contributions by Pamela Barmash; Kalman P. Bland; Abigail E. Gillman; Reuven Hammer; Vivian B. Mann; W. David Nelson; Richard S. Sarason and Arieh Saposnik

Exodus in the Jewish Experience: Echoes and Reverberations investigates how the Exodus has been, and continues to be, a crucial source of identity for both Jews and Judaism. It explores how the Exodus has functioned as the primary model from which Jews have created theological meaning and historical self-understanding. It probes how and why the Exodus has continued to be vital to Jews throughout the unfolding of the Jewish experience. As an interdisciplinary work, it incorporates contributions from a range of Jewish Studies scholars in order to explore the Exodus from a variety of vantage points. It addresses such topics as: the Jewish reception of the biblical text of Exodus; the progressive unfolding of the Exodus in the Jewish interpretive tradition; the religious expression of the Exodus as ritual in Judaism; and the Exodus as an ongoing lens of self-understanding for both the State of Israel and contemporary Judaism. The essays are guided by a common goal: to render comprehensible how the re-envisioning of Exodus throughout the unfolding of the Jewish experience has enabled it to function for thousands of years as the central motif for the Jewish people.
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Lexington Books
Pages: 292 • Trim: 6⅜ x 9¼
978-1-4985-0292-4 • Hardback • May 2015 • $133.00 • (£102.00)
978-1-4985-0293-1 • eBook • May 2015 • $126.00 • (£97.00)
Subjects: Religion / Judaism / History, Religion / Biblical Biography / Old Testament, Religion / Judaism / Rituals & Practice, Religion / Judaism / Sacred Writings
Pamela Barmash is associate professor of Hebrew Bible and Biblical Hebrew at Washington University in St. Louis.

W. David Nelson is chair of the Department of Religion and Ethics at Groton School.
Introduction: The Exodus: Central, Enduring, and Generative, Pamela Barmash
Chapter 1: Out of the Mists of History: The Exaltation of the Exodus in the Bible, Pamela Barmash
Chapter 2: Discontinuity and Dissonance: Torah, Textuality, and Early Rabbinic Hermeneutics of Exodus, W. David Nelson
Chapter 3: The Past as Paradigm: Enactments of the Exodus Motif in Jewish Liturgy, Richard S. Sarason
Chapter 4: The Impact of the Exodus on Halakhah (Jewish Law), Reuven Hammer
Chapter 5: Passover and Thanatos in Medieval Jewish Consciousness, Kalman P. Bland
Chapter 6: Observations on the Biblical Miniatures in Spanish Haggadot, Vivian B. Mann
Chapter 7: From Myth to Memory: German Jewish Translations of Exodus 12-13, Abigail E. Gillman
Chapter 8: The Desert Comes to Zion: A Narrative Ends its Wandering, Arieh Saposnik
The essays in this volume collectively provide an admirable overview of the diverse ways in which the exodus, as the fundamental and formative concept of the biblical past, simultaneously shaped and was shaped by the exigencies of subsequent generations, beginning already in the biblical period. Both academic and general readers will find much of value in these well-written and well-documented studies.
— Hebrew Higher Education


If you are looking for ways to deepen your understanding and make your Passover Seder more intellectually rich, I highly recommend you read these essays. You will never think about the Exodus in the same way again.
— Rabbi Rebecca Alpert, Temple University


In an impressive array of contributions ranging from articulations of the Exodus experience in the Hebrew Bible to rabbinic reinterpretations and performances, from prayer to Jewish law, and from medieval Jewish thought to modern Zionism, the authors of Exodus in the Jewish Experience have produced a magnificent tapestry of collective Jewish memory and consciousness. This collection stands as a rich and expressive response to the Haggadah’s injunction, 'In every generation one must look upon oneself as if he or she had personally left Egypt.'
— Hillel J. Kieval, Washington University in St. Louis


This volume of essays makes you rethink, and appreciate anew, Jewish liturgy's foundational phrase 'to commemorate the Exodus.' The contributors trace changes in the meaning of this phrase over time and place. As they examine references to the Exodus in Jewish literature, prayer, art, and philosophy, they deepen its symbolic significance. A highly readable collection of essays by experts in a wide variety of fields.
— Rabbi Judith Hauptman, Jewish Theological Seminary


Exodus in the Jewish Experience

Echoes and Reverberations

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Hardback
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Summary
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  • Exodus in the Jewish Experience: Echoes and Reverberations investigates how the Exodus has been, and continues to be, a crucial source of identity for both Jews and Judaism. It explores how the Exodus has functioned as the primary model from which Jews have created theological meaning and historical self-understanding. It probes how and why the Exodus has continued to be vital to Jews throughout the unfolding of the Jewish experience. As an interdisciplinary work, it incorporates contributions from a range of Jewish Studies scholars in order to explore the Exodus from a variety of vantage points. It addresses such topics as: the Jewish reception of the biblical text of Exodus; the progressive unfolding of the Exodus in the Jewish interpretive tradition; the religious expression of the Exodus as ritual in Judaism; and the Exodus as an ongoing lens of self-understanding for both the State of Israel and contemporary Judaism. The essays are guided by a common goal: to render comprehensible how the re-envisioning of Exodus throughout the unfolding of the Jewish experience has enabled it to function for thousands of years as the central motif for the Jewish people.
Details
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  • Lexington Books
    Pages: 292 • Trim: 6⅜ x 9¼
    978-1-4985-0292-4 • Hardback • May 2015 • $133.00 • (£102.00)
    978-1-4985-0293-1 • eBook • May 2015 • $126.00 • (£97.00)
    Subjects: Religion / Judaism / History, Religion / Biblical Biography / Old Testament, Religion / Judaism / Rituals & Practice, Religion / Judaism / Sacred Writings
Author
Author
  • Pamela Barmash is associate professor of Hebrew Bible and Biblical Hebrew at Washington University in St. Louis.

    W. David Nelson is chair of the Department of Religion and Ethics at Groton School.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
  • Introduction: The Exodus: Central, Enduring, and Generative, Pamela Barmash
    Chapter 1: Out of the Mists of History: The Exaltation of the Exodus in the Bible, Pamela Barmash
    Chapter 2: Discontinuity and Dissonance: Torah, Textuality, and Early Rabbinic Hermeneutics of Exodus, W. David Nelson
    Chapter 3: The Past as Paradigm: Enactments of the Exodus Motif in Jewish Liturgy, Richard S. Sarason
    Chapter 4: The Impact of the Exodus on Halakhah (Jewish Law), Reuven Hammer
    Chapter 5: Passover and Thanatos in Medieval Jewish Consciousness, Kalman P. Bland
    Chapter 6: Observations on the Biblical Miniatures in Spanish Haggadot, Vivian B. Mann
    Chapter 7: From Myth to Memory: German Jewish Translations of Exodus 12-13, Abigail E. Gillman
    Chapter 8: The Desert Comes to Zion: A Narrative Ends its Wandering, Arieh Saposnik
Reviews
Reviews
  • The essays in this volume collectively provide an admirable overview of the diverse ways in which the exodus, as the fundamental and formative concept of the biblical past, simultaneously shaped and was shaped by the exigencies of subsequent generations, beginning already in the biblical period. Both academic and general readers will find much of value in these well-written and well-documented studies.
    — Hebrew Higher Education


    If you are looking for ways to deepen your understanding and make your Passover Seder more intellectually rich, I highly recommend you read these essays. You will never think about the Exodus in the same way again.
    — Rabbi Rebecca Alpert, Temple University


    In an impressive array of contributions ranging from articulations of the Exodus experience in the Hebrew Bible to rabbinic reinterpretations and performances, from prayer to Jewish law, and from medieval Jewish thought to modern Zionism, the authors of Exodus in the Jewish Experience have produced a magnificent tapestry of collective Jewish memory and consciousness. This collection stands as a rich and expressive response to the Haggadah’s injunction, 'In every generation one must look upon oneself as if he or she had personally left Egypt.'
    — Hillel J. Kieval, Washington University in St. Louis


    This volume of essays makes you rethink, and appreciate anew, Jewish liturgy's foundational phrase 'to commemorate the Exodus.' The contributors trace changes in the meaning of this phrase over time and place. As they examine references to the Exodus in Jewish literature, prayer, art, and philosophy, they deepen its symbolic significance. A highly readable collection of essays by experts in a wide variety of fields.
    — Rabbi Judith Hauptman, Jewish Theological Seminary


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