Jewish Biblical Interpretation and Cultural Exchange : : Comparative Exegesis in Context /

Jewish Biblical Interpretation and Cultural Exchange : : Comparative Exegesis in Context / / ed. by David Stern, Natalie B. Dohrmann.

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Biblical interpretation is not simply study of the Bible's meaning. Historically, it has also served as a primary medium for cultural and religious exchange between the great religious traditions of the West. Focusing on moments of signal interest in the history of Jewish, Christian, and Islami...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package Complete Collection
MitwirkendeR:
Berlin, Adele,
Dohrmann, Natalie B.,
Firestone, Reuven,
Frank, Daniel,
Japhet, Sara,
Klepper, Deeana Copeland,
Knohl, Israel,
Lelli, Fabrizio,
Lowry, Joseph E.,
Sheerin, Daniel,
Stern, David,
Williams, Megan Hale,
HerausgeberIn:
Dohrmann, Natalie B.,
Stern, David,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013]
©2008
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Jewish Culture and Contexts
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Physical Description:1 online resource (352 p.) :; 7 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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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