Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface -- Arnon Atzmon and Ronit Nikolsky -- 1 Let Our Rabbi Teach Us: An Introduction to Tanhuma-Yelammedenu Literature -- Ronit Nikolsky and Arnon Atzmon -- Part 1: Bibliographical Survey -- 2 A Bibliographical Survey of Tanhuma-Yelammedenu Research: Past, Present, and Future -- Marc Bregman -- Part 2: Textual Findings -- 3 Tanhuma as a Textual Martyr: On the Reception of Tanhuma Literature in Literary and Documentary Genizah Sources -- Moshe Lavee -- 4 The Transmission of Midrash Tanhuma in Ashkenaz as Reflected in Binding Fragments from Germany -- Andreas Lehnardt -- Part 3: Language and Terminology -- 5 The Language of the Tanhuma-Yelammedenu Literature: The State of Research -- Yehonatan Wormser -- 6 "Rabbi Tanhuma Said": A Code Phrase for the Quotation from Tanhuma-Yelammedenu Literature -- Gila Vachman -- Part 4: Sources and Parallels -- 7 Pesikta in the Tanhuma: The Case of Pericope Shekalim -- Arnon Atzmon -- 8 A Tanhumaic Tradition on a Hasmonean King: Between Tannaitic Sources and the Babylonian Talmud -- Tal Ilan -- Part 5: Adjacent and Later Literatures -- 9 The Affinity between the Lost Midrash Yelammedenu and Midrash Vayekhulu -- Amos Geula -- 10 The Provenance of Aggadat Bereshit: A Reassessment of the Origins of the Work as a "Tanhuma Satellite" -- Lieve Teugels -- 11 Tanhuma in Masquerade: Discovering the Tanhuma in the Latter Midrash Rabbah Texts -- Shalem Yahalom -- Part 6: Cultural Context -- 12 Dramatic Dialogues in the Tanhuma-Yelammedenu Midrashim -- Dov Weiss -- 13 Meshalim on Election and Power: Two Examples in Tanhuma Buber -- Eric Ottenheijm -- 14 Joseph, Judah, and the Study of Emotions in Tanhuma-Yelammedenu Literature -- Ronit Nikolsky -- Part 7: Textual Witnesses -- 15 Survey of Textual Witnesses of the Tanhuma-Yelammedenu Literature -- Arnon Atzmon -- Bibliography -- Index of Biblical Sources -- Index of Tanhuma-Yelammedenu Literature -- Index of Sources -- Index of Modern Scholars -- General Index.

Tanhuma-Yelammedenu Literature enables a rare and unique look into the Jewish society of late antiquity and the early Byzantine period, especially the interaction between the beit-midrash and the synagogue cultures. This little-studied corpus is the focus of the present volume, in which various authors study historical, philological, cultural or linguistic aspects of this literature. The result is a body of work dedicated to this important corpus, and is a first step into giving it its proper place in Jewish Studies.

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