| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 488 pages) |
| Contents |
pt. 1. -- Medieval Jewish exegesis of the Bible. -- Introduction to medieval Jewish Biblical interpretation / Barry D. Walfish -- Search for truth in sacred scripture: Jews, Christians, and the authority to interpret / Stephen D. Benin -- Tension between literal interpretation and exegetical freedom: comparative observations on Saadia's method / Haggai Ben-Shammai -- Karaite commentaries on the Song of Songs from tenth-century Jerusalem / Daniel Frank -- Restoring the narrative: Jewish and Christian exegesis in the twelfth century / Michael A. Signer -- Rashbam as a "literary" exegete / Martin Lockshin -- Asceticism and eroticism in medieval Jewish philosophical and mystical exegesis of the Song of Songs / Elliot R. Wolfson -- Typology, narrative, and history: Isaac ben Joseph ha-Kohen on the Book of Ruth / Barry D. Walfish -- Method of doubts: problematizing the Bible in late medieval Jewish exegesis / Marc Saperstein -- Introducing scripture: the Accessus ad auctores in Hebrew exegetical literature from the thirteenth through the fifteenth centuries / Eric Lawee -- On the social role of Biblical interpretation: the case of Proverbs 22:6 / Alan Cooper pt. 2. -- Medieval Christian exegesis of the Bible. -- Introduction to medieval Christian Biblical interpretation / Joseph W. Goering -- Letter of the law: Carolingian exegetes and the Old Testament / Abigail Firey -- Four "senses" and four exegetes / Edward Synan -- Laudat sensum et significationem: Robert Grosseteste on the four senses of scripture / James R. Ginther -- Beryl Smalley, Thomas of Cantimpré, and the performative reading of scripture: a study of two exempla / Robert Sweetman -- Theological character of the scholastic "division of the text" with particular reference to the commentaries of Saint Thomas Aquinas / John F. Boyle -- Thomas of Ireland and his De tribus sensibus sacrae scripturae / Édouard Jeauneau -- Material swords and literal lights: the status of allegory in William of Ockham's Breviloquium on Papal power / A.J. Minnis pt. 3. Medieval exegesis of the Quran. Introduction to medieval interpretation of the Quran / Jane Dammen McAuliffe -- Discussion and debate in early commentaries of the Quran / Fred Leemhuis -- Weaknesses in the arguments for the early dating of Quranic commentary / Herbert Berg -- Scriptural "senses" in medieval Sufi Quran exegesis / Gerhard Böwering -- Are there allegories in Sufi Quran interpretation? / Hava Lazarus-Yafeh -- From the Sacred Mosque to the Remote Temple: Surat al-Isra between text and commentary / Angelika Neuwirth -- Quranic exegesis and history / Gerald Hawting -- Self-referentiality of the Quran: Sura 3:7 as an exegetical challenge / Stefan Wild -- Designation of "foreign" languages in the exegesis of the Quran / Andrew Rippin -- Genre boundaries of Quranic commentary / Jane Dammen McAuliffe |
| Summary |
This volume is a trilateral exploration of medieval scriptural interpretation. It examines and discusses the vast literature the three exegetical traditions created in the Middle Ages - a literature of great diversity but also one of numerous cross-cultural similarities |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85013623
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Qurʼan -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500
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Qurʼan -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- History -- To 1500
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Bible fast |
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Qurʼan fast |
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RELIGION -- Biblical Reference -- Quotations.
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Christianity.
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Religion.
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Philosophy & Religion.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
McAuliffe, Jane Dammen.
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Walfish, Barry.
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Goering, Joseph, 1947-2023
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| ISBN |
1423757513 |
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9781423757511 |
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