Figuring Firmaments Toward a Literary Structure: Toward a Literary Structure of the Hasidic Homily.
This essay clarifies the nature, function, and rhetorical power of the Hasidic homily by delineating three principal literary elements: the informative, a normative message pertaining to belief or practice; the interpretive, the hermeneutical techniques and strategies employed to interpret canonical...
| Publicado en: | Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies Vol. 43; no. 2; pp. 36 - 56 |
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Purdue University Press
2025
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