| Description |
1 online resource (x, 413 pages) |
| Series |
Jewish culture and contexts |
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Jewish culture and contexts.
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| Contents |
Introduction -- 1. Geonim and Karaites : appropriating methods of Qur'an interpretation -- 2. The Andalusian School : linguistic and literary advances in the Muslim orbit -- 3. Rashi : Peshat revolution in Northern France -- 4. Qara and Rashbam : refining the Northern French Peshat model -- 5. The Byzantine tradition : a newly discovered exegetical school -- 6. Abraham Ibn Ezra : transplanted Andalusian Peshat model -- 7. Maimonides : Peshat as the basis of Halakhah -- 8. Nahmanides : a new model of scriptural multivalence |
| Summary |
This book looks at the peshat mode of reading the Bible (as opposed to the midrashic mode). The mode was present in the tenth to twelfth centuries. Peshat is the plain meaning of the text, the plain reading, the philological reading, the nonmystical reading. Our author explores how the peshat mode influenced Christian and Muslim schools of interpretation and vice versa; and how the peshat scholars broke from the midrashic mode of biblical interpretation. Spain, France, and the Middle East were important centers for the peshat mode"-- Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| SUBJECT |
Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish -- History -- To 1500
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Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- History -- To 1500
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Bible. Old Testament -- Islamic interpretations -- History -- To 1500
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Bible. Old Testament -- Commentaries -- Early works to 1800
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Bible. Old Testament fast |
| Subject |
RELIGION / Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / Old Testament
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Islamic interpretations of sacred works
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Early works
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780812297010 |
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0812297016 |
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