Language:
English
Year of publication:
1998
Titel der Quelle:
Bibel und Midrasch
Angaben zur Quelle:
(1998) 263-274
Keywords:
Bible Criticism, interpretation, etc. Modern period, 1500-
;
History
;
Holocaust (Jewish theology)
Abstract:
States that Hebrew Bible scholars have largely been silent on the subject of the Holocaust. Discusses works of three writers who do give attention to "the Bible in light of the Shoah": Elie Wiesel, André Neher (who is a Bible scholar), and David Blumenthal. The Bible pervades Wiesel's writings; some of his works, particularly the earlier ones, protest against the fate of the Jews and challenge God. Neher specifically discusses reading the Bible after the Holocaust in his "The Exile of the Word" (1981); based on "midrashic imagination", he attempts to find references to the Holocaust in the Bible. Blumenthal's "Facing the Abusing God" (1993) contains biblical exegesis reminiscent of rabbinic teachings. All three writers disrupt traditional midrashic interpretations; Midrash presupposes a continuity in the history of interpretation, which Fackenheim claims was ruptured by the Holocaust. Linafelt proposes that the relationship between biblical and Holocaust studies is one of "negative dialectic", since the Bible should, but does not, relate to the Holocaust.
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