The Pious Sinner: Ethics and Aesthetics in the Medieval Hasidic Narrative |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Traditional Narrative in a New Context | 14 |
Methodological Discourse | 26 |
Originality and Creativity | 36 |
Themes and Structures | 43 |
Discourse on Fasting in Ones | 52 |
The Tale of the Herdsman | 58 |
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Discourse on Doubt and Suspicion | 102 |
Ideological Context of Pietism | 110 |
Escalation and Analogies | 123 |
Texture and Style | 131 |
Discourse on Avoiding Temptation | 147 |
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Common terms and phrases
adaptive pattern allomotif Almighty Ambrose antagonist Ashkenazic Ḥasidism atone Aviv Babylonian Talmud Ben-Sasson blessed blood test Book concept confession confrontation context created deed described dream E. E. Urbach Eleazar of Worms evil impulse example exemplum father Folklore Folktale genre German-Jewish Pietists Gershom Scholem Ha-Sippur Ḥasidei Ashkenaz Hasidic herdsman hero holy human I. G. Marcus Ibid idem intention Jerusalem Jewish Jewish Pietists Judah the Pious judge Kabbalah literary Maimonides man's Midrash Midrash ha-Gadol Midrash Tanhuma mizvah moral motif motifem Muslim stories narrative tradition neighbour in paradise overcome paragraph 51 parallel stories person Pietistic story Pietistic tale Pious Sinner pray prayer problem prostitutes protagonist punishment Rabbah Rabbi Eleazar Rabbi Judah Rav Sa'adya reader religious reward RSIJP sage scholar Sefer Hasidim shel sinful situation story in paragraph story's structure substory Tel Aviv tell temptation theological Three Confessors Torah Torat ha-Sod transgression woman worship yeshivah