Title Rashi, biblical interpretation, and Latin learning in medieval Europe : a new perspective on an exegetical revolution / Mordechai Z. Cohen, Yeshiva University, New York

Edition 1 Published New York : Cambridge University Press, 2021

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Description 1 online resource Contents Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Key Challenges in Rashi Scholarship -- Understanding Rashi in Light of St. Bruno -- Outline of this Study -- 1 A New Program of Peshat ("Plain Sense" Exegesis) -- Rashi and his Peshat School -- The Text of Rashi's Commentaries -- Three Paradigms that Privilege "the Peshat of Scripture" -- Rashi's Key Exegetical Concepts and Terminology -- 2 "Settling" the Words of Scripture Using Midrash -- Midrashic Rendering of the Biblical Narrative Typological Reading -- Halakhic Reading -- Disregarding the Talmudic Peshat Maxim -- Rashi's Dual Interpretive Goal -- 3 St. Bruno on Psalms: Precedent for Rashi? -- Grammatical Interpretive Method -- The Historical/Literal Sense -- Continuity and Sequence -- Authorial Intention -- Bruno and Rashi: Assessing Parallels and Possible Influence -- 4 Comparison to the Andalusian Exegetical School -- Ties to Judeo-Arabic Scholarship -- Samuel ben Hofni's Construction of Peshat -- Ibn Janah's Construction of Peshat -- Further Development of the Peshat Maxim in the Andalusian Tradition Andalusian Conceptions of Peshat vs. Christian Sensus Litteralis -- 5 Comparison to the Byzantine Exegetical School -- Reuel and the Scholia on the Pentateuch -- A Possible Source for Rashi? -- "The Peshat of Scripture" in Leqaḥ Ṭov -- Peshat in Tobiah ben Eliezer's Song of Songs Commentary -- 6 Rashi's Literary Sensibilities and Latin Grammatica -- Critical Selection of Traditional (Midrashic, Patristic) Commentaries -- Prologue Format and "the Holy Spirit" -- Literary Structure: Ordo Artificialis vs. Ordo Naturalis -- 7 Rashi's Notion of "the Poet" (ha-Meshorer) in the Latin Context The "Poet's" Structural Intentions -- Shifts in Perspective, Addressee, and Theme -- The "Poet" vs. the Biblical Editor -- "Writer of the Book (Kotev ha-Sefer)" -- Rashi's Literary Conceptions and Possible Latin Parallels -- 8 Joseph Qara and Rashbam: Peshat Legacy in Northern France -- Biographic and Bibliographic Background -- Attitudes toward Contemporary Modes of Bible Interpretation -- New Methods of Peshat -- 9 Literary Sensibilities of Peshat within a Latin Context -- Hermeneutics: Status of Peshat in Relation to Midrash -- Peshat vs. Halakhah -- Conceptions of the Biblical Narrator-Editor Reflections of Rashi's Notion of "the Poet" (ha-Meshorer) in Rashbam -- Innovation in a Traditional Framework: Peshat and Human Literary Agency -- "Mosaic" Authorship of the Pentateuch -- From Rashi to Rashbam: Peshat and the Literary Dimensions of Scripture -- Bibliography -- Manuscripts -- Rabbinic Works Cited -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- General Index -- Index of Scriptural References -- Index of Rabbinic Sources Summary "Introduction Rabbi Solomon Yitzhaqi (1040-1105), known as Rashi, is perhaps the most influential Jewish Bible interpreter of all time. A native of Troyes in the French county of Champagne, Rashi traveled in his youth to study for a decade in the Rhineland talmudic academies (yeshivot) of Mainz and Worms, then the intellectual center of the Ashkenazic (Franco-German) Jewish world.1 He returned to Troyes c. 1070 and established a vibrant school of Jewish learning that ultimately drew from the best and brightest students of the Ashkenazic community, who would, in turn, become its leading rabbinic figures in the twelfth century.2 Rashi's literary output centers on two major works: his Talmud commentary and his Bible commentary, each monumental in its own right.3 Drawing upon his training in the Rhineland academies by the disciples of the renowned Rabbenu ("our rabbi/master") Gershom ben Judah (c.960-1028), known as the "luminary of the diaspora," Rashi composed a line-by-line commentary on virtually the entire Talmud, the central rabbinic work that embodies the halakhah (Jewish law). Continually perfected throughout his lifetime, Rashi's Talmud commentary is comprised of lemmas and gloss-type notes that elucidate this highly complex and cryptic multi-volume rabbinic legal work"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed Subject Rashi, 1040-1105. Perush Rashi ʻal ha-Torah. Rashi, 1040-1105 SUBJECT Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish -- History -- To 1500 Perush Rashi ʻal ha-Torah (Rashi) fast Bible. Old Testament fast Subject RELIGION / Biblical Studies / Old Testament / General. Hermeneutics Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2021026831 ISBN 9781108556538 1108556531 9781108560207 1108560202

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