عنوان

A Funny Thing Happened on My Way to Sodom

شماره

LA118941

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انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

A Funny Thing Happened on My Way to Sodom

نام عام مواد

[Article]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Eliezer Segal

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

As an illustration of the phenomena of "filtered absorption" or "controlled incorporation" of Greek and Roman culture into late classical Judaism, this article focuses on the depiction of Abraham's servant, identified as Eliezer, in a passage in b. Sanh 109b, which consists largely of confrontations-several of them of a decidedly humorous or satirical nature-with the perverse laws, judges, and citizens of biblical Sodom. The manner in which Eliezer's midrashic personality and role were fashioned by the rabbis evokes a familiar character from classical literature, namely the "clever slave" [servus callidus], a figure that was cultivated most famously by Plautus and which became a popular stock character in Roman theater. The article tries to reconstruct how the midrashic homilist adapted the Latin dramatic conventions for Jewish religious and exegetical purposes.Special attention is paid to the Talmud's incorporation of the well-known motif of the "Procrustean bed"; noting the methodological and textual obstacles that plague our attempts to identify exactly which versions of that legend were being used by the Talmudic authors. As an illustration of the phenomena of "filtered absorption" or "controlled incorporation" of Greek and Roman culture into late classical Judaism, this article focuses on the depiction of Abraham's servant, identified as Eliezer, in a passage in b. Sanh 109b, which consists largely of confrontations-several of them of a decidedly humorous or satirical nature-with the perverse laws, judges, and citizens of biblical Sodom. The manner in which Eliezer's midrashic personality and role were fashioned by the rabbis evokes a familiar character from classical literature, namely the "clever slave" [servus callidus], a figure that was cultivated most famously by Plautus and which became a popular stock character in Roman theater. The article tries to reconstruct how the midrashic homilist adapted the Latin dramatic conventions for Jewish religious and exegetical purposes.Special attention is paid to the Talmud's incorporation of the well-known motif of the "Procrustean bed"; noting the methodological and textual obstacles that plague our attempts to identify exactly which versions of that legend were being used by the Talmudic authors.

تاريخ نشر

2015

توصيف ظاهري

103-129

عنوان

Journal for the Study of Judaism

شماره جلد

46/1

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1570-0631

اصطلاح موضوعی

Babylonian Talmud

اصطلاح موضوعی

Judaism

اصطلاح موضوعی

Latin comedy

اصطلاح موضوعی

Midrash

اصطلاح موضوعی

Procrustrian bed

اصطلاح موضوعی

Talmud

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Eliezer Segal

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/15700631-12340094

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y