Mordechai Z Cohen

The Rule of Peshat

Jewish Constructions of the Plain Sense of Scripture and Their Christian and Muslim Contexts, 900-1270

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Produktbeschreibung

Adopting a comparative approach that explores Jewish interactions with Muslim and Christian learning, Mordechai Z. Cohen sheds new light on the key turns in the vibrant medieval tradition of Jewish Bible interpretation, which yielded a conception of peshat exegesis that remains a gold standard in Jewish hermeneutics to this day.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 163mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 771g
• ISBN-13: 9780812252125
• ISBN-10: 0812252128
• Artikelnr.: 58600525

Autorenporträt

Mordechai Z. Cohen is Professor of Bible and Associate Dean of the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies at Yeshiva University. He is also author of Opening the Gates of Interpretation: Maimonides' Biblical Hermeneutics in Light of His Geonic-Andalusian Heritage and Muslim Milieu and Three Approaches to Biblical Metaphor: From Abraham Ibn Ezra and Maimonides to David Kimhi.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1. Geonim and Karaites: Appropriating Methods of Qur'an
Interpretation
Chapter 2. The Andalusian School: Linguistic and Literary Advances in the
Muslim Orbit
Chapter 3. Rashi: Peshat Revolution in Northern France
Chapter 4. Qara and Rashbam: Refining the Northern French Peshat Model
Chapter 5. The Byzantine Tradition: A Newly Discovered Exegetical School
Chapter 6. Abraham Ibn Ezra: Transplanted Andalusian Peshat Model
Chapter 7. Maimonides: Peshat as the Basis of Halakhah
Chapter 8. Nahmanides: A New Model of Scriptural Multivalence
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments