Studies in the Tanhuma-Yelammedenu Literature

Ronit Nikolsky, Ph.D. (2004), The Hebrew University, is a senior lecturer in Middle Eastern Studies and Culture and Cognition at the University of Groningen. She has published numerous articles on various aspects of rabbinic culture, and edited various volumes dedicated to Jewish culture and cognition.Arnon Atzmon, Ph.D. (2006), Bar-Ilan University, is a senior lecturer of Talmud and Midrash Studies at that university. He has published two books and many articles on rabbinic literature, including A Critical Edition of Midrash Esther Rabbah (with Prof. Joseph Tabory; Midrash Project of the Schechter Institute, 2014) and "My Children, Read this Passage Every Year": Composition and Meaning in Pesikta De-Rav Kahana (Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 2021).

• PrefaceArnon Atzmon and Ronit Nikolsky1 Let Our Rabbi Teach Us: An Introduction to Tanhuma-Yelammedenu LiteratureRonit Nikolsky and Arnon AtzmonPart 1: Bibliographical Survey2 A Bibliographical Survey of Tanhuma-Yelammedenu Research: Past, Present, and FutureMarc BregmanPart 2: Textual Findings3 Tanhuma as a Textual Martyr: On the Reception of Tanhuma Literature in Literary and Documentary Genizah SourcesMoshe Lavee4 The Transmission of Midrash Tanhuma in Ashkenaz as Reflected in Binding Fragments from GermanyAndreas LehnardtPart 3: Language and Terminology5 The Language of the Tanhuma-Yelammedenu Literature: The State of ResearchYehonatan Wormser6 “Rabbi Tanhuma Said”: A Code Phrase for the Quotation from Tanhuma-Yelammedenu LiteratureGila VachmanPart 4: Sources and Parallels7 Pesikta in the Tanhuma: The Case of Pericope ShekalimArnon Atzmon8 A Tanhumaic Tradition on a Hasmonean King: Between Tannaitic Sources and the Babylonian TalmudTal IlanPart 5: Adjacent and Later Literatures9 The Affinity between the Lost Midrash Yelammedenu and Midrash VayekhuluAmos Geula10 The Provenance of Aggadat Bereshit: A Reassessment of the Origins of the Work as a “Tanhuma Satellite”Lieve Teugels11 Tanhuma in Masquerade: Discovering the Tanhuma in the Latter Midrash Rabbah TextsShalem YahalomPart 6: Cultural Context12 Dramatic Dialogues in the Tanhuma-Yelammedenu MidrashimDov Weiss13 Meshalim on Election and Power: Two Examples in Tanhuma BuberEric Ottenheijm14 Joseph, Judah, and the Study of Emotions in Tanhuma-Yelammedenu LiteratureRonit NikolskyPart 7: Textual Witnesses15 Survey of Textual Witnesses of the Tanhuma-Yelammedenu LiteratureArnon AtzmonBibliographyIndex of Biblical SourcesIndex of Tanhuma-Yelammedenu LiteratureIndex of SourcesIndex of Modern ScholarsGeneral Index