Intertextuality And the Reading of Midrash
“First of all, my colleagues at Yale University in 1984–85, with whom I spent hundreds of hours in good talk: Ken Frieden, Jill Robbins, and Shira Wolosky. Next, my teacher during that year, Geoffrey Hartman, who steered me away from paths too easy. Then, my colleagues in midrashic research, Devora Dimant, Menahem Kahana, James Kugel, Chaim Milikovsky, and David Stern, all of whom have read parts of the manuscript and rendered valuable criticism. Wolfgang Iser, Dimitry Segal, and Ellen Spolsky c...arefully read several chapters of the work and made serious, trenchant and useful comments. Herbert Marks's work as editor was of extraordinary value. I am especially indebted to Meir Sternberg who read two entire drafts of the manuscript and devoted himself to my work as a good teacher to a student, even though I have never been formally his student. I have tried to take all warnings into consideration when I have been able to understand them and when the gain seemed greater than the loss. More and more, from my own experience I am convinced that literary production is a social practice and not an individual creative act.MoreLess
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