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In Pirqei deRabbi Eliezer: Structure, Coherence, Intertextuality Katharina E. Keim offers a description of the literary character of Pirqei deRabbi Eliezer, an enigmatic work of the late-eighth-to-early-ninth centuries CE. Katharina E. Keim explores the work’s distinctive literary features through an analysis of its structure and coherence. These literary features, when taken together with the work’s intertextual relationships with antecedent and contemporaneous Christian and Jewish (rabbinic and non-rabbinic) texts, reveal Pirqei deRabbi Eliezer to be an innovative work, and throw light on a new turn in Jewish literature following the rise of Islam.

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In this deeply analytical examination of the classic rabbinic exegetical work, Pirqei deRabbi Eliezer (PRE), Katharina Keim sheds greater light not only on the structure and coherence of this work, but also on its intertextual relationship with the other major primary texts of Judaism and even with Christian and Islamic traditions....Highly recommended for historians or rabbinic literature, particularly scholars of the first to 10th centuries, and anyone interested in Jewish-Christian-Muslim relations in this period and its literary impact. David B Levy, Touro College, NYC, Association of Jewish Libraries reviews, 2018 This study applies a rigorous, desccriptive text-linguistic approach to Pirquei Rabbi Eliezer, particualrly with regard to questions of structure, coherence, and intertextuality. New Testaments Abstracts, 2018

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Katharina E. Keim, Ph.D. (2014), University of Manchester, is British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the John Rylands Research Institute at the same university. She has published articles on Pirqei deRabbi Eliezer’s cosmology and literary forms.

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