Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2005. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2006. / Title from first page of PDF file (viewed September 19, 2006). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Nesta tese, as parábolas dos Evangelhos são analisadas segundo o método de Yonah Fraenkel desenvolvido para os meshalim rabínicos. Esse método é baseado na teoria de Paul Ricoeur sobre a metáfora viva, que leva a considerar a parábola como uma narrativa metafórica e hermenêutica. Para a análise das quatro parábolas escolhidas, considera-se primeiro o texto aramaico dos evangelhos na Peshitá, a fim de evidenciar o arraigamento da parábola no seu contexto judaico. A análise prossegue com vários passos metodológicos: modelo de base, trama narrativa, relação mashal-nimshal, torsão da realidade, desvelamentos. Esses passos evidenciam a estrutura literária da parábola e a sua função hermenêutica. Ressonâncias com parábolas rabínicas da literatura talmúdica e midráshica são apontadas. Verifica-se assim a aplicabilidade do método de Fraenkel para as parábolas evangélicas. Percebe-se a necessidade de determinar um corpus de narrativas segundo vários critérios tais como relação à Escritura, narratividade, presença de elementos extravagantes. Um ponto principal diferencia o mashal rabínico da parábola evangélica: a possível presença de traços alegóricos nessa última. Esse dado é devido à diferença de contexto sócioreligioso e do processo na transmissão da parábola até ser posta por escrito. As grandes similitudes superam porém essas diferenças. A parábola hermenêutica dos evangelhos é de fato uma parábola rabínica. / The parables of the Gospel are analyzed in this thesis according to Yonáh Fraenkel\'s method developed for rabbinical meshalim. This method is based on Paul Ricoeur\'s theory on the living metaphor, that considers the parable as a metaphorical and hermeneutical narrative. For the analysis of the four chosen parables, we first take into account the aramaic text of the Gospels, the Peshitta text, in order to evidence the rooting of the parable in its jewish context. The analysis continues with several methodological steps: basic model, narrative plot, correspondences between mashal and nimshal, twisting of the reality, unveilings. These steps evidence the literary structure of the parable and its hermeneutical function. Resonances with rabbinical parables of the talmudic and midrashic literature are pointed out. The applicability of Fraenkels method for parables of the Gospels can be so verified. It is needed to fix a corpus of narratives according to several criterions such as: link to the Scripture, narrativity, extravagant elements. A main issue differentiates the rabbinical mashal from the parable of the Gospels: allegorical marks can be found in the late one. This is due to the difference of social and religious context and the transmission process of the parable until it was put into writing. However, the important similarities overcome those diferencies. The hermeneutical parable of the Gospels is actually a rabbinical parabel.

This dissertation analyzes the performance of rabbinic expertise in the cultivation of donor and social networks in late antiquity. Through analysis of narrative depictions of rabbis and donors in Palestinian Rabbinic literature, I illustrate the social relationships created and maintained through gift-giving. I argue the rabbis used social networks to cultivate the legitimacy of the rabbinic project, facilitated by the authorizing power of donations. I demonstrate how donations to rabbis served as a means of legitimizing the rabbinic office as they formed into a self-conscious guild whose authority rested on the performance of expertise. These donations were not so simply received, however, as the rabbis disdained reciprocal forms of patronage associated with the broader Roman empire. Therefore, I demonstrate how the rabbis drew from systems of donation in the biblical text in order to assuage the association of their donors with formal patronage. In drawing from the biblical system and applying to their own historical times, the rabbis blended the gift types of tithes, charity, benefaction, and patronage. In this way, narrative accounts of tithes, charity, and informal gifts to rabbis can be read for the dynamics of reciprocal expectations sometimes encoded in the narrative account. With careful attention to rabbinic exegetical strategies, I trace the reception of biblical ideas about giving to their manifestation within the particular context of Roman Syria Palaestina.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--ha-Universiṭah ha-ʻIvrit bi-Yerushalayim, Jerusalem, 1980. / Abstract in English. Title on added t.p.: The status of the labourer and the relationship between employers and employees in the Talmudic and Midrashic literature. Errata slip inserted. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 197-208).

Thesis (Th. M.)--Dallas Theological Seminary, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 77-81).

Thesis (M.A.)--Columbia International University, 2002. / Abstrakt. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 126-135).

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Thesis (Th. M.)--Dallas Theological Seminary, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 77-81).

Habilitationsschrift--Frankfurt am Main, 1973. / Includes indexes. Includes bibliographical references (p. [243]-254).