Talk:Moses sees Rabbi Akiva (Menachot 29b)
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Yair Furstenberg in idem, “The Agon with Moses and Homer: Rabbinic Midrash and the Second Sophistic,” in Maren Niehoff, ed., Homer and the Bible in the Eyes of Ancient Interpreters (Leiden: Brill, 2012), 299–328
Levine, Nachman. "Reading crowned letters and semiotic silences in Menachot 29b." Journal of Jewish studies 53, no. 1 (2002): 35-48. 10.18647/2389/JJS-200
Jeffrey Rubenstein, Stories of the Babylonian Talmud (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010), 182–20
Wollenberg, Rebecca Scharbach. "Parchment Skins and Human Skins: Some Thoughts on the Permeability of Text and Material Environment in Late Antique Jewish Reading Cultures." Hebrew Studies 64, no. 1 (2023): 11-30.10.1353/hbr.2023.a912648
Yadin-Israel, Azzan. "Bavli Menaḥot 29b and the Diminution." Journal of Ancient Judaism 5, no. 1 (2014): 88-105. ISSN: 1869-3296. 10.30965/21967954-00501006
Azzan Yadin-Israel, Scripture and Tradition: Rabbi Akiva and the Triumph of Midrash (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015), 103–118.
Zellentin, Holger. "Typology and the Transfiguration of Rabbi Aqiva (" Pesiqta de Rav Kahana" 4: 7 and BT" Menaḥot" 29b)." Jewish Studies Quarterly (2018): 239-268. 0.1628/jsq-2018-0013
Zellentin, Holger. "“Honour with Silence the Words of Your Creator”: Moses’ Silence in bMenaḥot 29b in Light of its Jewish and Christian Context." In Syriac Theology: Past and Present, pp. 183-208. Brill Schöningh, 2022. 10.30965/9783657793396_010
"For a discussion of the text’s hermeneutics in relationship to contemporary discourse, see, e.g., Laurence I. Edwards, “Rabbi Akiba’s Crowns: Postmodern Discourse and the Cost of Rabbinic Reading,” Judaism 49 (2000): 417–434. On the rabbis’ penchant for self-criticism in relationship to this story see also Daniel Boyarin, Socrates and the Fat Rabbis (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009), esp. 231–236" -- Zellentin 2022
As paradigm of inter-generational interpretation of historical events, re: Shoah. Berger, Alan L. "Bearing Witness: Second Generation Literature of the" Shoah"." Modern Judaism (1990): 43-63. p.47
" Yakir Paz, “‘Binding Crowns to the Letters’ ‒ A Divine Scribal Practice in Its Historical Context,” Tarbiz – A Quarterly for Jewish Studies 86 (January-June 2019): 233–267 [Hebrew]. Paz develops previous suggestions by Shlomo Naeh, “The Script of Torah in Rabbinic Thought (B): Transcriptions and Thorns,” Leshonenu 71 (2010): 89–123 [Hebrew]" -- Zellentin 2022 ProfGray (talk) 15:20, 15 November 2024 (UTC)