The Rule of Peshat : : Jewish Constructions of the Plain Sense of Scripture and Their Christian and Muslim Contexts, 900-1270 / / Mordechai Z. Cohen.

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• VerfasserIn: Cohen, Mordechai Z.,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Jewish Culture and Contexts
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (496 p.) :; 1 illus.

An exploration of the theoretical underpinnings of the philological method of Jewish Bible interpretation known as peshatWithin the rich tradition of Jewish biblical interpretation, few concepts are as vital as peshat, often rendered as the "plain sense" of Scripture. Generally contrasted...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• 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
• General Index
• Index of Scriptural References
• Acknowledgments