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First Words, Last Words explores the nature of theoretical innovation in scholastic traditions by focusing on a specific controversy regarding scriptural interpretation in sixteenth-century India. The controversy concerns the role of sequence-what comes first and what comes later-in determining our interpretation of a scriptural passage. Bronner and McCrea trace both the issue of sequence and the question of innovation through an in-depth study of this debate and through a comparative survey of similar problems in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, revealing that the disputants in this…mehr

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First Words, Last Words explores the nature of theoretical innovation in scholastic traditions by focusing on a specific controversy regarding scriptural interpretation in sixteenth-century India. The controversy concerns the role of sequence-what comes first and what comes later-in determining our interpretation of a scriptural passage. Bronner and McCrea trace both the issue of sequence and the question of innovation through an in-depth study of this debate and through a comparative survey of similar problems in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, revealing that the disputants in this controversy often pretended to uphold traditional views, when they were in fact radically innovative.
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Yigal Bronner is Associate Professor in the Department of Asian Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His areas of interest include Sanskrit literature and literary history and Sanskrit poetics and its intellectual history. He is the author of Extreme Poetry: The South Asian Movement of Simultaneous Narration, co-editor of Innovations and Turning Points: Toward a History of K?vya Literature, and of New Directions in South Asian Studies: Critical Engagements with Sheldon Pollock, among other books. Lawrence McCrea is Professor of Sanskrit Studies in the Department of Asian Studies at Cornell University. He is the author of numerous papers on traditional Indian poetry, poetics, language theory, and hermeneutics. He is the author of The Teleology of Poetics in Medieval Kashmir, co-author of Buddhist Philosophy of Language in India: Jn?na?r?mitra on Exclusion, and co-editor of New Directions in South Asian Studies: Critical Engagements with Sheldon Pollock.