Jewish Biblical Interpretation and Cultural Exchange: Comparative Exegesis in Context

✍ Scribed by Natalie B. Dohrmann (editor); David Stern (editor)

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Year: 2013
Tongue: English
Leaves: 348
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Biblical interpretation is not simply study of the Bible's meaning. This volume focuses on signal moments in the histories of scriptural interpretation of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam from the ancient period to the early modern, and shows how deeply intertwined these religions have always been.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Preface
Introduction: On Comparative Biblical Exegesis–Interpretation, Influence, Appropriation
1. Interpreting Torah Traditions in Psalm 105
2. Cain: Son of God or Son of Satan?
3. Manumission and Transformation in Jewish and Roman Law
4. Lessons from Jerome’s Jewish Teachers: Exegesis and Cultural Interaction in Late Antique Palestine
5. Ancient Jewish Interpretation of the Song of Songs in a Comparative Context
6. Patriarchy, Primogeniture, and Polemic in the Exegetical Traditions of Judaism and Islam
7. May Karaites Eat Chicken? Indeterminacy in Sectarian Halakhic Exegesis
8. Early Islamic Exegesis as Legal Theory: How Qur’anic Wisdom (Hikma) Became the Sunna of the Prophet
9. Interpreting Scripture in and through Liturgy: Exegesis of Mass Propers in the Middle Ages
10. Exegesis and Polemic in Rashbam’s Commentary on the Song of Songs
11. Literal versus Carnal: George of Siena’s Christian Reading of Jewish Exegesis
12. Christian and Jewish Iconographies of Job in Fifteenth-Century Italy
Notes
List of Contributors
Index of Persons
Index of Sources

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