A parábola-metáfora na literatura rabínica - o mashal à luz dos trabalhos de Paul Ricoeur e Jonáh Fraenkel

A parábola-metáfora na literatura rabínica - o mashal à luz dos trabalhos de Paul Ricoeur e Jonáh Fraenkel

Pascal Jean Andre Roger Peuze

Dissertação de mestrado em Língua Hebraica, Literatura e Cultura Judaica (USP)

Data da defesa: 04/02/2011

Resumo: A parábola (o mashal) da literatura rabínica é analisada nesta dissertação como uma narrativa metafórica. Pontua-se primeiramente os elementos básicos da teoria de Paul Ricoeur sobre a metáfora e os seus paralelos na concepção do mashal rabínico de Jonáh Fraenkel. Apresenta-se em seguida, por meio de um constante vai-e-vem entre os dois autores, e na base de cinco meshalim, os passos metodológicos desenvolvidos por Fraenkel: determinação do modelo de base, análise da trama da narrativa enquanto unidade completa, estabelecimento de correspondências entre mashal e nimshal. Valoriza-se então a extravagância da parábola que obriga a ir além do modelo de base da mesma. Desta forma, o mashal torna-se para os Sábios da literatura rabínica um meio de desvelar novos sentidos da Torá. Aponta-se enfim que o mashal se encontra em plena consonância com o mundo do Talmud-Torá por ser, antes de tudo, uma atividade e um questionamento, e por pertencer ao domínio da Torá Oral. Assim, ele pode e deve questionar a Torá Escrita. A harmonia de forma e conteúdo, e os diversos temas abordados no mashal, fazem também com que este fosse tão apreciado pelos Sábios nos seus ensinamentos. Por isso, intitulamos a parábola-metáfora que é o mashal rabínico de Talmud-Torá em miniatura.

Palavras-chave: Literatura Rabínica, Jonah Fraenkel, Mashal, Metáfora, Parábola, Paul Ricoeur

Menachem Mendel (Michael Pitkowsky)

Menachem Mendel

About: My name is Michael Pitkowsky and I am currently pursuing a Ph.D. in the Department of Talmud and Rabbinics at the Jewish Theological Seminary. I see this blog as a forum for me to put into the public domain thoughts and ideas that I have regarding Judaism, rabbinic literature, Jewish law, and occasionally some other topic of interest to me.

The Cambridge Companion to the Talmud and Rabbinic Literature

The Cambridge Companion to the Talmud and Rabbinic Literature
Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert and Martin S. Jaffee, eds.
Reviewed by Joshua Schwartz

Description: This volume introduces students of rabbinic literature to the range of historical and interpretative questions surrounding the rabbinic texts of late antiquity. The editors, themselves well-known interpreters of Rabbinic literature, have gathered an international collection of scholars to support students' initial steps in confronting the enormous and complex rabbinic corpus. Unlike other introductions to Rabbinic writings, the present volume includes approaches shaped by anthropology, gender studies, oral-traditional studies, classics, and folklore studies.
Subjects: Bible, Mishnah, Talmudic and Rabbinic Literature, Literature

Review by Joshua Schwartz
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Published 7/12/2008
Citation: Joshua Schwartz, review of Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert and Martin S. Jaffee, eds., The Cambridge Companion to the Talmud and Rabbinic Literature, Review of Biblical Literature [http://www.bookreviews.org] (2008)

The Literature of the Sages: Second Part: Midrash and Targum, Liturgy, Poetry, Mysticism.......

The Literature of the Sages: Second Part: Midrash and Targum, Liturgy, Poetry, Mysticism, Contracts, Inscriptions, Ancient Science and the Languages of Rabbinic Literature
Safrai, Shmuel, Zeev Safrai, Joshua Schwartz and Peter J. Tomson, editors

Assen/Minneapolis: Van Gorcum/Fortress, 2006

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Compendia Rerum Judaicarum ad Novum Testamentum, 2.3b

Description: The literary creation of the ancient Jewish teachers or sages (also called rabbinic literature) consists of the teachings of thousands of sages, many of them anonymous. For a long period, their teachings existed orally, which implied a great deal of flexibility in arrangement and form. Only gradually, as parts of this amorphous oral tradition became fixed, was the literature written down, a process that began in the third century C.E. and continued into the Middle Ages. Thus the documents of rabbinic literature are the result of a remarkably long and complex process of creation and editing. This long-awaited companion volume to 'The Literature of the Sages, First Part' (1987) gives a careful and succinct analysis both of the content and specific nature of the various documents, and of their textual and literary forms, paying special attention to the continuing discovery and publication of new textual material. Incorporating ground-breaking developments in research, these essays give a comprehensive presentation published here for the first time. This volume is an important reference work for all students of ancient Judaism, as well as for those interested in the origins of Jewish tradition and the Jewish background of Christianity

Subjects: Bible, Mishnah, Talmudic and Rabbinic Literature, Targumic Texts, Other Rabbinic Works, Literature

Review by Jan-Wim Wesselius
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Published 12/1/2007
Citation: Jan-Wim Wesselius, review of Shmuel Safrai, Zeev Safrai, Joshua Schwartz, and Peter J. Tomson, eds., The Literature of the Sages: Second Part: Midrash and Targum, Liturgy, Poetry, Mysticism, Contracts, Inscriptions, Ancient Science and the Languages of Rabbinic Literature, Review of Biblical Literature [http://www.bookreviews.org] (2007).

Review by Marvin A. Sweeney
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Published 6/28/2008
Citation: Marvin A. Sweeney, review of Shmuel Safrai, Zeev Safrai, Joshua Schwartz, and Peter J. Tomson, eds., The Literature of the Sages: Second Part: Midrash and Targum, Liturgy, Poetry, Mysticism, Contracts, Inscriptions, Ancient Science and the Languages of Rabbinic Literature, Review of Biblical Literature [http://www.bookreviews.org] (2008).

Discussing Cultural Influences: Text, Context, and Non-Text in Rabbinic Judaism

Discussing Cultural Influences: Text, Context, and Non-Text in Rabbinic Judaism

Ulmer, Rivka, editor

Lanham, Md.: University Press of America, 2006

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Studies in Judaism

Description: Discussing Cultural Influences contextualizes Rabbinic Judaism by emphasizing that the framers of Rabbinic thought were in conversation with cultures different from their own as much as with their own tradition. In a series of seven essays, presented here for the first time, the authors challenge the reader's assumptions about Judaism in the Second Temple period, late antiquity, and the early medieval era.

Subjects: Bible, Mishnah, Talmudic and Rabbinic Literature, Literature

Review by Joshua Schwartz
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Published 6/28/2008

Citation: Joshua Schwartz, review of Rivka Ulmer, ed., Discussing Cultural Influences: Text, Context, and Non-Text in Rabbinic Judaism, Review of Biblical Literature
[http://www.bookreviews.org] (2008).

Current Trends in the Study of Midrash

Current Trends in the Study of Midrash

Bakhos, Carol, editor

Leiden: Brill, 2006

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Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism, 106

Description: This collection of essays by many of the leading scholars of midrash and rabbinics reflects the various current methodological approaches to the study of rabbinic scriptural interpretation. During the last three decades of the 20th century scholars in the field made significant forays into literary studies, interdisciplinary studies, and to some degree womens studies. This volume thus illustrates these trends, and highlights several fundamental studies, such as the origins of midrash, the making of critical editions, and the relationship of midrash to other forms of Jewish as well as non-Jewish exegesis. Situating midrash within the broader contexts of hermeneutics, rabbinics and postmodern studies, the volume as a whole presents the reader with a comprehensive view of the kinds of questions and issues scholars in the field are engaging.

Subjects: Bible, Mishnah, Talmudic and Rabbinic Literature, Literature

Review by Siam Bhayro
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Published 6/28/2008
Citation: Siam Bhayro, review of Carol Bakhos, ed., Current Trends in the Study of Midrash, Review of Biblical Literature [http://www.bookreviews.org] (2008).