Title The slayers of Moses : the emergence of rabbinic interpretation in modern literary theory / Susan A. Handelman

Published Albany : State University of New York Press, 1982

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 267 pages) Series SUNY Series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture SUNY series in modern Jewish literature and culture. Contents Front Matter -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Table of Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Methodological Preface -- Note to the Reader -- Content -- HISTORICAL BACKGROUND -- Greek Philosophy and the Overcoming of the Word -- Plato and Language: The Cratylus -- Aristotle and the Problems of Predication -- Aristotle: Words and Things, Rhetoric vs. Philosophy -- The Contemporary Critique: Derrida and Ricoeur -- The Model of Metaphor -- Rabbinic Thought: The Divinity of the Text The Bible and the GreeksThe Text -- The Development of the Oral Law -- Some Philosophic Aspects of the Rabbinic Interpretive System -- Kat Ve-Chomer -- The Other Twelve Middot: The Relations of General and Particular -- Midrash -- Metaphor and Metonymy in Interpretation -- Escape from Textuality: The Fulfiller of Signs -- The Letter and the Spirit -- Philo -- Origen -- The Logos and the Letter -- Unity, Trinity Literal, Figurative -- Augustine -- Augustine's Theory of Signs -- THE SLAYERS OF MOSES -- Prologue:The Book of Books and the Book of Nature Solomon-Sigmund, the Son of JakobUndoing Moses -- Heretic Hermeneutics: Re-writing Origins -- Freud's Methodology: New Arrangements, Hidden Gaps -- The Hybrid Science -- Solomon-Sigmund, the Son of Jakob -- Undoing Moses -- Heretic Hermeneutics: Re-writing Origins -- Freud's Methodology: New Arrangements, Hidden Gaps -- The Hybrid Science -- The Analyst as Scribe: Jacques Lacan and the Return of the Father's Name -- Reb Derrida's Scripture -- Derrida vs. Lacan -- The Curtained Torah -- To Love the Torah More than God The Critic as Kabbalist: Harold Bloom and the Heretic HermeneuticFrom the Visionary to the Revisionary Company -- The Revisionary Ratios -- The Revisionary Warfare of Christian Exegesis -- The Conflict of Literary Traditions: Genteel Classical versus Judaic Antithetical -- Satanic Criticism -- Scholem, Kabbalah, and Heresy -- Revelation and Tradition -- Revisionary Blindness -- The Theory of Literary Influence and Kabbalistic Terminology: Sejirot, Behinot, Tzimtzum -- Bloom's Map of Misreading -- Analogical Transformation -- Back Matter -- Appendix Rabbi lshnwel's Rules Four Through Eleven: General and ParticularGlossary -- Notes -- Methodological Preface -- 1. Greek Philosophy and the Overcoming of the Word -- 2. Rabbinic Thought: The Divinity of the Text -- 3. Some Philosophic Aspects of the Rabbinic Interpretive System -- 4. Escape from Textuality: The Fulfiller of Signs -- Prologue: The Book of Books and the Book of Nature -- 5. Solomon-Sigmund, the Son of Jakob -- 6. The Analyst as Scribe: Jacques Lacan and the Return of the Father's Name -- 7. Reb Derrida's Scripture Summary "In this groundbreaking study, Susan Handelman examines the theological roots of the modern science of interpretation. She defines current structures of thought and patterns of organizing reality, clearly distinguishes them from previously reigning Hellenic modes of abstract thought, and connects them with important elements of the Rabbinic interpretive tradition. Hers is the first comprehensive treatment of the undeniable, and undeniably significant, influence of Jewish religious thought on contemporary literary criticism. Dr. Handelman shows how they provide a crucial link among several of the most influential modern theories of textual interpretation, from Freud to the Deconstructionist School of Lacan and Derrida, as well as current literary theorists who revive Rabbinic hermeneutics, such as Harold Bloom and Geoffrey Hartman.Susan A. Handelman, Assistant Professor of English at the University of Maryland, has published articles on literature, critical theory, and Jewish studies."-- Provided by publisher Notes OldControl:muse9781438405643 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-261) and index Notes Print version record SUBJECT Talmud -- Influence Talmud fast Subject Criticism Rabbinical literature -- History and criticism PHILOSOPHY -- Epistemology. Criticism Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Rabbinical literature Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781438405643 1438405642 9780873955775 0873955773

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