With Reverence for the Word (eBook, PDF)

Medieval Scriptural Exegesis in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
Redaktion: Mcauliffe, Jane Dammen; Goering, Joseph W.; Walfish, Barry D.

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume is the first trilateral exploration of medieval scriptural interpretation. The vast literature written during the medieval period is one of both great diversity and numerous cross-cultural similarities. These essays explore this rich heritage of biblical and qur'anic interpretation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Januar 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780195350302
• Artikelnr.: 38137993

Autorenporträt

Jane Dammen McAuliffe is President and Professor of History at Bryn Mawr College, previously Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Georgetown University. She sits on the Council on Foreign Relations. arry D. Walfish is cross-appointed as Collection Development Department for the University of Toronto Library and Professor of Religions Studies. Joseph W. Goering is cross-appointed to the departments of History and Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto.

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface
* Part One: Medieval Jewish Biblical Exegesis
* 1: Barry D. Walfish: Introduction
* 2: Stephen D. Benin: The Search for Truth in Sacred Scripture: Jews,
Christians, and the Authority to Interpret
* 3: Haggai Ben-Shammai: The Tension between Literal Interpretation and
Exegetical Freedom: Comparative Observations on Saadia's Method
* 4: Daniel J. Frank: Karaite Commentaries on the Song of Songs from
Tenth-Century Jerusalem
* 5: Michael A. Signer: Restoring the Narrative: Jewish and Christian
Exegesis in the Twelfth Century
* 6: Martin Lockshin: Rashbam as a 'Literary' Exegete
* 7: Elliot R. Wolfson: Asceticism and Eroticism in Medieval Jewish
Philosophical and Mystical Exegesis of the Song of Song
* 8: Barry D. Walfish: Typology, Narrative, and History: Isaac ben
Joseph ha-Kohen on the Book of Ruth
* 9: Marc Saperstein: The Method of Doubts: Problematizing the Bible in
Late Medieval Jewish Exegesis
* 10: Eric Lawee: Introducing Scripture: The Accessus ad auctores in
Hebrew Exegetical Literature from the Thirteenth through the
Fifteenth Centuries
* 11: Alan Cooper: On the Special Role of Biblical Interpretation: The
Case of Proverbs 22:6
* Part Two: Medieval Christian Biblical Exegesis
* 12: Joseph Goering: Introduction
* 13: Abigail Firey: The Letter of the Law: Carolingian Exegetes and
the Old Testament
* 14: Edward Synan: The Four 'Senses' and Four Exegetes
* 15: James R. Ginther: Laudat sensum et significationem: Robert
Grosseteste and the Four Senses of Scripture
* 16: Robert Sweetman: Beryl Smalley, Thomas of Camtimpre, and the
Performative Reading of Scripture: A Study in Two Exempla
* 17: John Boyle: The Theological Character of the Scholastic 'Division
of the Text' with Particular Reference to the Commentaries of St.
Thomas Aquinas
* 18: Edouard Jeanuneau: Thomas of Ireland and his De tribus sensibus
sacrae scripturae
* 19: A. J. Minnis: Material Swords and Literal Lights: The Status of
Allegory in William of Ockham's reviloquium on Papal Power
* Part Three: Medieval Exegesis of the Qur'an
* 20: Jane Dammen Mc Auliffe: Introduction
* 21: Fred Leemhuis: Discussion and Debate in Early Commentaries of the
Qur'an
* 22: Herbert Berg: Weakness in the Arguments for the Early Dating of
the Qur'anic Commentary
* 23: Gerhard Bowering: The Scriptural 'Senses' in Medieval Sufi Qur'an
Exegesis
* 24: Hava Lazarus-Yafeh: Are There Allegories in Sufi Qur'an
Interpretation?
* 25: Angelika Neuwirth: From the Sacred Mosque to the Remote Temple:
Surat al-Isra' between Text and Commentary
* 26: Gerald Hawting: Qur'anic Exegesis and History
* 27: Stefan Wild: The Self-Referentiality of the Qur'an: Sura 3:7 as
an Exegetical Challenge
* 28: Andrew Rippin: The Designation of 'Foreign' Languages in the
Exegesis of the Qur'an
* 29: Jane Dammen McAuliffe: The Genre Boundaries of Qur'anic
Commentary