Jewish Biblical Interpretation and Cultural Exchange: Comparative Exegesis in Context.

Dohrmann, Natalie B. and Stern, David, edited by.

ISBN 10: 081224074X / ISBN 13: 9780812240740

Edité par University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 2008

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Octavo in dust jacket, viii, 340 pp., notes, list of contributors, index of persons, index of sources Articles are "Introduction: On Comparative Biblical Exegesis - Interpretation, Influence, Appropriation," David Stern, "Interpreting Torah Traditionsin Psalm 105," Adele Berlin, "Cain: Son of God or Son of Satan?" Israel Knohl, "Manumission and Transformation in Jewish and Roman Law," Natalie B. Dohrmann, "Lessosn from Jerome's Jewish Teachers: Exegesis and Cultural Interaction in Late Antique Palestine," Megan Hale Williams, "Ancient Jewish Interpretation of the Song of Songs in a Comparative Context," Stern, "Patriarchy, Primogeniture, and Polemic in the Exegetical Traditions of Judaism and Islam," Reuven Firestone, "May Karaites Eat Chicken? Indeterminacy in Sectarian Halakhic Exegesis," Daniel Frank, "Early Islamic Exegesis as Legal Theory: How Qur'anic Wisdom (Hikma) Became the Sunna of the Prophet," Joseph E. Lowry, "Interpreting Scripture in and through Liturgy: Exegesis of Mass Propers in the Middle Ages," Sara Japhet, "Literal versus Carnal: George of Siena's Christian Reading of Jewish Exegesis," Deeana Copeland Klepper, "Christian and Jewish Iconographies of Job in Fifteenth-Century Italy," Fabrizio Lelli.

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• Titre: Jewish Biblical Interpretation and Cultural Exchange: Comparative Exegesis in Context.
• Éditeur: University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia
• Date de parution: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 081224074X
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780812240740
• Reliure: Hardbound
• Édition: First Edition.
• État de l'article: Very Good
• État de la jaquette: Jaquette

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Jewish Biblical Interpretation and Cultural Exchange Comparative Exegesis in Context Edited by Natalie B. Dohrmann and David Stern "No other anthology of scholarship on the Jewish interpretation of the Hebrew Bible covers the same chronological span (ancient through early modern) or has the same comparative and contextual emphasis (Jewish, Christian, Muslim, and Karaite) as this."--Steven Fraade, Yale University Biblical interpretation is not simply study of the Bible's meaning. Historically, it has also served as a primary medium for cultural and religious exchange between the great religious traditions of the West. Focusing on moments of signal interest in the history of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic scriptural interpretation from the ancient, medieval, and early modern periods, Jewish Biblical Interpretation and Cultural Exchange offers a unique comparative perspective. Each of the essays treats its subject in relation to the larger cultural context and to other contemporary interpretative traditions. Sources and authors examined in the book include late biblical and early postbiblical compositions, rabbinic legal and homiletical interpretation, Jerome and other early Christian exegetes, Islamic exegesis in both the Qur'an and early Muslim tradition, medieval Jewish and Christian exegetes, and biblical interpretation as evidenced in early modern illustrations of biblical scenes. The histories of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic interpretation are presented not merely as parallel but as deeply interrelated, not only as reacting and polemicizing against each other but often as appropriating the tools and methods of their rival traditions. Biblical exegesis thus emerges as a forum of active and intense cultural exchange. The volume comes at a crucial time in the study of Jewish relations with Christianity and Islam, and shows how deeply connected and intertwined these three religious traditions truly are. Natalie B. Dohrmann teaches in the Religious Studies Department and is the Director of Publications at the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. David Stern is Ruth Meltzer Professor of Classical Hebrew Literature at Penn. He is author of Midrash and Theory: Ancient Jewish Exegesis and Contemporary Literary Studies and Parables in Midrash: Narrative and Exegesis in Rabbinic Literature. Jewish Culture and Contexts 2008 352 pages 6 x 9 7 illus. ISBN 978-0-8122-4074-0 Cloth $69.95s £45.50 ISBN 978-0-8122-0945-7 Ebook $69.95s £45.50 World Rights Religion Short copy: Biblical interpretation is not simply study of the Bible's meaning. This volume focuses on signal moments in the histories of scriptural interpretation of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam from the ancient period to the early modern, and shows how deeply intertwined these religions have always been.

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Natalie B. Dohrmann teaches in the Religious Studies Department and is the Director of Publications at the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. David Stern is Ruth Meltzer Professor of Classical Hebrew Literature at Penn. He is author of Midrash and Theory: Ancient Jewish Exegesis and Contemporary Literary Studies and Parables in Midrash: Narrative and Exegesis in Rabbinic Literature.