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The Rule of Peshat
Author | : Mordechai Z. Cohen |
Publsiher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 2020-05-29 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780812252125 |
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An exploration of the theoretical underpinnings of the philological method of Jewish Bible interpretation known as peshat Within the rich tradition of Jewish biblical interpretation, few concepts are as vital as peshat, often rendered as the "plain sense" of Scripture. Generally contrasted with midrash—the creative and at times fanciful mode of reading put forth by the rabbis of Late Antiquity—peshat came to connote the systematic, philological-contextual, and historically sensitive analysis of the Hebrew Bible, coupled with an appreciation of the text's literary quality. In The Rule of "Peshat," Mordechai Z. Cohen explores the historical, geographical, and theoretical underpinnings of peshat as it emerged between 900 and 1270. Adopting a comparative approach that explores Jewish interactions with Muslim and Christian learning, Cohen sheds new light on the key turns in the vibrant medieval tradition of Jewish Bible interpretation. Beginning in the tenth century, Jews in the Middle East drew upon Arabic linguistics and Qur'anic study to open new avenues of philological-literary exegesis. This Judeo-Arabic school later moved westward, flourishing in al-Andalus in the eleventh century. At the same time, a revolutionary peshat school was pioneered in northern France by the Ashkenazic scholar Rashi and his circle of students, whose methods are illuminated by contemporaneous trends in Latinate learning in the Cathedral Schools of France. Cohen goes on to explore the heretofore little-known Byzantine Jewish exegetical tradition, basing his examination on recently discovered eleventh-century commentaries and their offshoots in southern Italy in the twelfth century. Lastly, this study focuses on three pivotal figures who represent the culmination of the medieval Jewish exegetical tradition: Abraham Ibn Ezra, Moses Maimonides, and Moses Nahmanides. Cohen weaves together disparate Jewish disciplines and external cultural influences through chapters that trace the increasing force acquired by the peshat model until it could be characterized, finally, as the "rule of peshat": the central, defining feature of Jewish hermeneutics into the modern period.
Opening the Gates of Interpretation
Author | : Mordechai Z. Cohen |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 597 |
Release | : 2011-08-25 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9789004189324 |
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This study highlights the contributions of the great philosopher-talmudist Moses Maimonides to the rationalist, “plain sense” (peshat) tradition of Jewish Bible exegesis, assessing his place in the Geonic-Andalusian school and showing how he harnessed Greco-Arabic learning to open new hermeneutical possibilities.
Rashi Biblical Interpretation and Latin Learning in Medieval Europe
Author | : Mordechai Z. Cohen |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 323 |
Release | : 2021-04-29 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781108470292 |
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A new look at Rashi's innovative commentary that sheds unique light on medieval Jewish and Christian learning and Bible interpretation.
Interpreting Scriptures in Judaism Christianity and Islam
Author | : Mordechai Z. Cohen,Adele Berlin |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 399 |
Release | : 2016-06-06 |
Genre | : Bibles |
ISBN | : 9781107065680 |
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New Perspectives on Jewish Christian Relations
Author | : Elisheva Carlebach,Jacob J. Schacter |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 560 |
Release | : 2011-11-25 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9789004221178 |
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This work revisits the millennia-old Jewish-Christian encounter by providing a nuanced understanding of its challenges as well as presenting new perspectives on hitherto neglected areas of cultural, religious, and social interchange and influence.
Entangled Histories
Author | : Elisheva Baumgarten,Ruth Mazo Karras,Katelyn Mesler |
Publsiher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2017-01-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780812248685 |
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Entangled Histories: Knowledge, Authority, and Jewish Culture in the Thirteenth Century provides a multifaceted account of Jewish life in Europe and the Mediterranean basin at a time when economic, cultural, and intellectual encounters coincided with heightened interfaith animosity.
Regional Identities and Cultures of Medieval Jews
Author | : Javier Castano,Talya Fishman,Ephraim Kanarfogel |
Publsiher | : Liverpool University Press |
Total Pages | : 363 |
Release | : 2018-05-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781786949905 |
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The origins of Judaism’s regional ‘subcultures’ are poorly understood, as are Jewish identities other than ‘Ashkenaz’ and ‘Sepharad’. Through case studies and close textual readings, this volume illuminates the role of geopolitical boundaries, cross-cultural influences, and migration in the medieval formation of Jewish regional identities.
The New Cambridge Companion to Biblical Interpretation
Author | : Ian Boxall,Bradley C. Gregory |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 411 |
Release | : 2022-12-22 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781108857161 |
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This Cambridge Companion offers an up-to-date and accessible guide to the fast-changing discipline of biblical studies. Written by scholars from diverse backgrounds and religious commitments – many of whom are pioneers in their respective fields – the volume covers a range of contemporary scholarly methods and interpretive frameworks. The volume reflects the diversity and globalized character of biblical interpretation in which neat boundaries between author-focused, text-focused, and reader-focused approaches are blurred. The significant space devoted to the reception of the Bible – in art, literature, liturgy, and religious practice – also blurs the distinction between professional and popular biblical interpretation. The volume provides an ideal introduction to the various ways that scholars are currently interpreting the Bible. It offers both beginning and advanced students an understanding of the state of biblical interpretation, and how to explore each topic in greater depth.