عنوان

Zekhut Imahot:

شماره

LA119061

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Zekhut Imahot:

نام عام مواد

[Article]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

Mothers, Fathers, and Ancestral Merit in Rabbinic Sources

نام نخستين پديدآور

Sarit Kattan Gribetz

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

Rabbinic sources develop the theological concept of ancestral merit, the idea that the merits of parents, especially fore-parents, continue to offer their descendants favor in the eyes of God. The term zekhut avot is often translated as "merit of the fathers." In this article, I ask: to whom does "avot," in the term zekhut avot, refer? I argue that the concept of zekhut avot encompassed the biblical matriarchs in addition to the patriarchs, though this fact has often gone unnoticed or been deemphasized in modern scholarship, and that the terms "maʿaseh imahot" and "zekhut imahot" appear alongside "maʿaseh avot" and "zekhut avot" in the sources. I argue further that the figure of Rachel stands most prominently among the matriarchs whose merit assists her descendants, parallel to Abraham's binding of Isaac as the paradigmatic event that accrued patriarchal merit. I conclude by offering historical and literary reasons for this development in rabbinic sources. Rabbinic sources develop the theological concept of ancestral merit, the idea that the merits of parents, especially fore-parents, continue to offer their descendants favor in the eyes of God. The term zekhut avot is often translated as "merit of the fathers." In this article, I ask: to whom does "avot," in the term zekhut avot, refer? I argue that the concept of zekhut avot encompassed the biblical matriarchs in addition to the patriarchs, though this fact has often gone unnoticed or been deemphasized in modern scholarship, and that the terms "maʿaseh imahot" and "zekhut imahot" appear alongside "maʿaseh avot" and "zekhut avot" in the sources. I argue further that the figure of Rachel stands most prominently among the matriarchs whose merit assists her descendants, parallel to Abraham's binding of Isaac as the paradigmatic event that accrued patriarchal merit. I conclude by offering historical and literary reasons for this development in rabbinic sources.

تاريخ نشر

2018

توصيف ظاهري

263-296

عنوان

Journal for the Study of Judaism

شماره جلد

49/2

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1570-0631

اصطلاح موضوعی

ancestral merit

اصطلاح موضوعی

fathers

اصطلاح موضوعی

Mary

اصطلاح موضوعی

matriarchs

اصطلاح موضوعی

midrash

اصطلاح موضوعی

mothers

اصطلاح موضوعی

patriarchs

اصطلاح موضوعی

rabbis

اصطلاح موضوعی

Rachel

اصطلاح موضوعی

Talmud

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Sarit Kattan Gribetz

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/15700631-12491201

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y