Tuesday, April 02, 2019

Review of Keim, Pirqei deRabbi Eliezer

ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: Book Note | Pirqei deRabbi Eliezer: Structure, Coherence, Intertextuality (Yoni Nadiv).
Katharina E. Keim. Pirqei deRabbi Eliezer: Structure, Coherence, Intertextuality. Leiden: Brill, 2017.
Excerpt:
Pirqei deRabbi Eliezer (PRE) is a “thematic discourse” that is organized as a shadow to the Bible (from creation to Sinai) and is made up of an anthology of literary forms pieced together in a “lego-like” (p. 75) structure. These are the major conclusions of Katharina Keim’s study, a 204 page work, with excellent appendices, based on her Manchester dissertation of 2014. ...
I have noted the book here and here.

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