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Nehama Aschkenasy
b. 1940
Israeli-born Nehama Aschkenasy is professor of comparative literary and cultural studies at the University of Connecticut, where she specializes in Hebrew and biblical literature, women in Hebraic and Western literature, and comparative literary theory. She is an author, editor, and contributor to scholarly periodicals.
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Recreating the Canon
The ancient Judaic midrash paved the way for a certain type of biblical hermeneutics while also using the master pre-Text as a pretext for creating a new tale. The midrash is the prototype of creative…