Coortext - Das sind Oliver Baier, Ellen Eckhardt, Martina Füg, Thomas Fuhlbrügge, Hildegard Hillenbrand, Martin Kreuzer, Daniele Ludewig, Marc Mandel und Klaus Pfeifer - Poeten aus dem Darmstädter Raum, die sich regelmäßig treffen. Als sie sich vornahmen, über das Weihnachtsfest zu schreiben, wusste niemand, dass daraus ein ideales Geschenk für Leser jeden Alters entstehen würde. Diese Sammlung liegt nun als Buch vor: Neun individuelle Sichtweisen zum Lesen und Vortragen.
Marc Hirshman traces and outlines the ideals and practices of rabbinic learning as presented in the relatively few late antique sources that discuss the processes and ideals of learning. Though oral learning was common in many ancient cultures, the Jewish approach has a different theoretical basis and different aims. Hirshman explores the evolution and institutionalization of Jewish culture in both Babylonian and Palestinian sources. At its core, he argues, the Jewish cultural thrust in the first centuries of the common era was a sustained effort to preserve the language of its culture in its most pristine form. This was done by the rabbis in a very conscious cultural conflict with their surrounding cultures.