Studies in the Tanhuma-Yelammedenu Literature

Tanhuma-Yelammedenu Literature enables a rare and unique look into the Jewish society of late antiquity and the early Byzantine period, especially the interaction between the beit-midrash and the synagogue cultures. This little-studied corpus is the focus of the present volume, in which various authors study historical, philological, cultural or linguistic aspects of this literature. The result is a body of work dedicated to this important corpus, and is a first step into giving it its proper place in Jewish Studies.

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).

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.