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Author Visscher, Eva De.

Title Reading the rabbis : Christian Hebraism in the works of Herbert of Bosham / by Eva De Visscher
Published Boston : Brill, 2014

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Description 1 online resource
Series Commentaria, 1874-8236 ; Volume 5
Commentaria ; Volume 5, 1874-8236
Contents Machine generated contents note: 1. Herbert of Bosham's Life and Works -- 2. Christian Hebraisms -- 3. Hebraist Commentaries: The Magna Glosatura and the Psalterium Cum Commento -- I. How Much Hebrew did Herbert Know? -- 1. Transliteration of Hebrew Words -- 2. Knowledge of Hebrew Grammar -- 3. Lexical Changes: The Problems of Literal Translation -- II. Hebrew Learning Tools -- 1. Jerome -- 2. Hebrew-Latin Psalters and the Eadwine Psalter -- 3. Hebraico-French Glosses -- Le'azim -- 4. Hebrew-Hebraico-French Glossaries and Proto-dictionaries -- III. Use of Rabbinic Sources -- 1. Magister and Litterator -- 2. Rashi -- 3. Midrash Tehillim -- 4. Talmud/Gamaliel -- 5. Targums -- 6. Menahem ben Saruq and Dunash ibn Labrat -- 7. Oral Sources -- IV. Negotiating Christian and Jewish Authorities -- 1. Paul's Neutralising Influence -- 2. Paul as Christianising Force -- 3. Paul versus the Litteratores -- 4. Herbert on the Fence? -- V. Practice of Literal Exegesis -- 1. Hebraist, Exegete and Polemicist -- 2. Littera and Peshat -- 3. Caro and Spiritus
Summary In Reading the Rabbis Eva De Visscher examines the level of Hebrew scholarship, programme of literal exegesis, and use of Jewish and Christian Hebraist sources in two commentaries on the Psalms by English polymath Herbert of Bosham (c.1120-c.1194)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Herbert, of Bosham, active 12th century -- Knowledge -- Judaism
SUBJECT Herbert, of Bosham, active 12th century fast
Subject Christian Hebraists -- England -- History -- 12th century
Christianity and other religions -- Relations -- Judaism -- History -- 12th century
Judaism -- Relations -- Christianity -- History -- 12th century
RELIGION -- Judaism -- General.
Christian Hebraists
Christianity
Interfaith relations
Judaism
England
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789004255739
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