Papers by Lieve M Teugels
Lieve M. Teugels, "Circumcision and Sexuality in the Jewish Tradition: The Bible, its Readers, an... more Lieve M. Teugels, "Circumcision and Sexuality in the Jewish Tradition: The Bible, its Readers, and its Readers’ Readers”, in Lieve M. Teugels and Karin B. Neutel, eds., Circumcision and Jewish Identity. Case Studies on Ancient Texts and Their Reception. JIC 33 (Piscataway: Gorgias Press, 2023), 197-226
The Power of Parables, 2023
This is chapter 8 in the book: The Power of Parables. Essays on the Comparative Study of Jewish a... more This is chapter 8 in the book: The Power of Parables. Essays on the Comparative Study of Jewish and Christian Parables. Eds. Eric Ottenheijm, Marcel Poorthuis , and Annette Merz (Brill, 2023)
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Jewish and Christian Perspectives Series, Volume: 39
This is an open access chapter distributed under the terms of the CC BY-NC 4.0 license. The book can be accessed here: https://brill.com/display/title/68346
Encyclopedia of jewish Christian Relations, 2023
Binitarianism is the belief in two persons within one godhead. This is usually distinguished from... more Binitarianism is the belief in two persons within one godhead. This is usually distinguished from bitheism-belief in two gods, but this distinction is not always clear in the scholarly literature. In this entry we take the stance that binitarianism self-identifies as a form of monotheism-belief in one god-but one that reckons with a twofold division within that godhead. Its most well-known form, Christian binitarianism consists of a division between Father and Son in the one God.
Lieve M. Teugels, “From the Lion to the Snake, from the Wolf to the Bear. Rescue and Punishment in Classical Fables and Rabbinic Meshalim.”, 2022
Lieve M. Teugels, “From the Lion to the Snake, from the Wolf to the Bear. Rescue and Punishment ... more Lieve M. Teugels, “From the Lion to the Snake, from the Wolf to the Bear. Rescue and Punishment in Classical Fables and Rabbinic Meshalim”, in Overcoming Dichotomies: Parables, Fables, and Similes in the Graeco-Roman World, ed. J. Pater, A. Oegema, M. Stoutjesdijk (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2022), 217-23
Journal for the Study of Judaism
Rabbinic texts apply the metaphor of the vineyard to the Torah as well as to Israel. Conceptual M... more Rabbinic texts apply the metaphor of the vineyard to the Torah as well as to Israel. Conceptual Metaphor Theory allows us to explain the parallel use of the vineyard metaphor for the two target domains, Israel and the Torah. The conceptual metaphor of the vineyard includes such aspects as the fence, the vines and the wine. The generic metaphor something precious is a cultivated piece of land enables us to include related conceptual fields, such as a field of wheat, or another cultivated piece of land. By means of the principle of the “creation of similarity,” the Torah and Israel are linked in the rabbinic cultural world, using the notion of preciousness, segulah. The metaphor of the vineyard not only reflects, but also induces the similarity: conceived as vineyards, Israel and the Torah become precious in the minds of the people using and hearing or reading the metaphorical texts.
Recent Developments in Midrash Research
Die gottesdienstlichen Vortrage der Juden, Historisch entwickelt
Journal of Jewish Studies, 2000
Depuis que le midrash homiletique rabbinique Aggadat Bereshit est etudie, il est associe au cycle... more Depuis que le midrash homiletique rabbinique Aggadat Bereshit est etudie, il est associe au cycle de lecture tri-annuel. Les homelies ont ete expliquees comme etant des commentaires sur les ecrits de la synagogue concernant les trois parties du Tanak dans le cycle tria-nnuel. En se basant sur une etude litteraire des homelies et en les comparant a des parties de lecture tri-annuelle, l'A. montre qu'Aggadat Bereshit est une composition litteraire qui se concentre sur l'unite du Tanak tripartite. Le midrash a probablement ete destine a une etude personnelle ou collective sans lien direct avec une synagogue. Son Sitz im Leben n'est donc pas la liturgie mais l'etude du Tanak.
Lieve M. Teugels, “The Contradictory Philosophical Lessons of the Parable of the Lame and the Blind Guards in Various Rabbinic Midrashim”, 2017
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Full reference: Lieve M. Teugels, “The Contradictory Philosophical Le... more this is a prepub version
Full reference: Lieve M. Teugels, “The Contradictory Philosophical Lessons of the Parable of the Lame and the Blind Guards in Various Rabbinic Midrashim”, in D. Nelson and R. Ulmer (eds.), From Creation to Redemption: Progressive Approaches to Midrash. Proceedings of the Midrash Section, Society of Biblical Literature, Volume 7 (2017), 153-171.
Paratext and Megatext as Channels of Jewish and Christian Traditions
Jerusalem and Other Holy Places as Foci of Multireligious and Ideological Confrontation
Parables in Changing Contexts
NTT Journal for Theology and the Study of Religion
De parabel van de lamme en de blinde komt voor in verscheidene rabbijnse bronnen, in een discussi... more De parabel van de lamme en de blinde komt voor in verscheidene rabbijnse bronnen, in een discussie tussen Rabbi Jehuda ha-nasi en de romeinse filosoof ‘Antoninus’ over de verhouding tussen lichaam en ziel. Op haar beurt maakt deze masjal weer deel uit van een midrash op Exodus 15:1. In de verschillende rabbijnse bronnen waar deze masjal is opgenomen, en zelfs binnen de bronnen, vinden we geen eenduidige rabbijnse positie aangaande de verhouding tussen lichaam en ziel. Ook het onderscheid tussen de ‘rabbijnse’ en de ‘romeinse’ posities is niet zo duidelijk als men zou kunnen verwachten.
Hebrew Texts in Jewish, Christian and Muslim Surroundings
Journal of Semitic Studies, 2010
PEKKA LINDQVIST, Sin at Sinai: Early Judaism Encounters: Exodus 32 (Studies in Rewritten Bible 2)... more PEKKA LINDQVIST, Sin at Sinai: Early Judaism Encounters: Exodus 32 (Studies in Rewritten Bible 2). Åbo Akademi University and Eisenbrauns, Winona Lake 2008. Pp. 391. Price: $49.95. ISBN: 978-952-12-2020-3. The book offers an illuminating exploration of how the ' ...
Journal for the Study of Judaism, 1999
La presence de deux passages anti chretiens dans l'oeuvre midrashique homiletique Aggadat Ber... more La presence de deux passages anti chretiens dans l'oeuvre midrashique homiletique Aggadat Bereshit a ete consideree par certains erudits comme une cle de datation pour cette oeuvre, environ le Xe siecle. Cette date est basee sur le fait qu'on a plus de chance de trouver des propos anti-chretiens dans la litterature juive du Moyen Age que dans la litterature rabbinique qui lui est anterieure. Toutefois aucune raison n'est donnee qui permette d'affirmer que ces polemiques soient typiques du Xe siecle, ni aucun element de comparaison. Dans cet article, l'A. met en question le fait que les propos polemiques soient medievaux.
Journal for the Study of Judaism, 2000
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Papers by Lieve M Teugels
Series:
Jewish and Christian Perspectives Series, Volume: 39
This is an open access chapter distributed under the terms of the CC BY-NC 4.0 license. The book can be accessed here: https://brill.com/display/title/68346
Full reference: Lieve M. Teugels, “The Contradictory Philosophical Lessons of the Parable of the Lame and the Blind Guards in Various Rabbinic Midrashim”, in D. Nelson and R. Ulmer (eds.), From Creation to Redemption: Progressive Approaches to Midrash. Proceedings of the Midrash Section, Society of Biblical Literature, Volume 7 (2017), 153-171.
Series:
Jewish and Christian Perspectives Series, Volume: 39
This is an open access chapter distributed under the terms of the CC BY-NC 4.0 license. The book can be accessed here: https://brill.com/display/title/68346
Full reference: Lieve M. Teugels, “The Contradictory Philosophical Lessons of the Parable of the Lame and the Blind Guards in Various Rabbinic Midrashim”, in D. Nelson and R. Ulmer (eds.), From Creation to Redemption: Progressive Approaches to Midrash. Proceedings of the Midrash Section, Society of Biblical Literature, Volume 7 (2017), 153-171.
With the assistance of Esther van Eenennaam. Mohr Siebeck, 2019. Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism 176. See https://www.mohrsiebeck.com/en/book/the-meshalim-in-the-mekhiltot-9783161556487
For scholars dealing with the comparability of parables in the NT Gospels with rabbinic meshalim, a definition of the genre is a central concern. Definitions proffered by New Testament scholars (Zimmerman e.a.) typically focus on the subject matters of the parable, whereas rabbinic scholars (Stern, Boyarin, Goldberg e.a.) seem to give formal and functional aspects center stage in their definitions of the genre mashal. In Zimmerman’s definition of the genre parable, which contains the requirement that the parable should be realistic, and not contain anthropomorphic representations of plants and animals, the presence of a talking animal in a narrative would exclude it from the genre. In such a definition, the narrative under concern would fall under a different genre, namely ‘fable’. From the formal and functional perspective often adopted by rabbinic scholars, this parable does not stand out among other parables, except that its images are rather original. In order to be effective, comparative parable research conducted by New Testament and rabbinic scholars, should measure with the same sticks and the delineation of the genre (if this is at all desirable) should be based on representative samples of both corpora. It is feasible that only a very broad definition of the genre ‘parable’ is able to be comprehensive enough to cover both rabbinic and New Testament parables. Based on an analysis of the mashal of the sheep dogs and the wolf, in comparison with other parables in the New Testament and in rabbinic literature, and with narratives generally labeled ‘fables’, I will try to come to an answer to the question whether ‘genre’ is the right track in comparative parable research.
This talk was based on my chapter in this book: L. M. Teugels, " Between hermeneutic and rhetoric: The parable of the slave who buys a rotten fish in exegetical and homiletical Midrashim" (50-64) - see under 'papers'
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