Second Slayings: The Binding of Isaac and the Formation of Jewish Cultural Memory

by David N Gottlieb

This work is a study of Jewish cultural memory as exemplified by rabbinic midrash of the Amoraic period, the second through fifth centuries of the Common Era, and especially midrash on the Akedah, the Binding of Isaac (Gen. 22:1-19). The Akedah is proposed and analyzed as a model for submission to the divine will through the act of interpretation. Rabbinic exegetes adopt and adapt interpretive stances modeled in the Akedah as a strategy for cultural...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1463240260
• ISBN13: 9781463240264
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Gorgias Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"