Fighting over the Bible : : Jewish interpretation, sectarianism and polemic from Temple to Talmud and beyond /

Fighting over the Bible : : Jewish interpretation, sectarianism and polemic from Temple to Talmud and beyond / / by Isaac Kalimi.

Fighting over the Bible explores the bitter conflicts between main stream Jews and their internal and external opponents, especially between particular Jewish groups such as Pharisees, Sadducees, Qumranites, Samaritans, Rabbanites and Karaites, as well as with Christians and Muslims regarding their...

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Superior document:The Brill reference library of Judaism ; v. 54
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Kalimi, Isaac.
Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2017]
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:The Brill Reference Library of Judaism 54.
Physical Description:1 online resource (356 pages) :; illustrations.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction
  • The Place of the Bible in Jewish Religion and Culture: Written and Oral Torah
  • Rabbinic Exegesis in Contradiction to the Simple Meaning of Biblical Texts
  • Theologies and Methodologies in Classical Jewish Interpretation: A Study of Midrash Psalms and Its View of God
  • Encounters and Polemics between Jews, Christians, and Muslims in Medieval Jewish Exegesis
  • A Bridge or a Barrier? Jews, Christians and the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament: The Roots of Jewish-Christian Controversy
  • The Binding of Isaac
  • The Day of Atonement in the Late Second Temple Period: Disputes between Sadducees, Pharisees, and Qumranites
  • The Hiding of the Temple Vessels in Jewish and Samaritan Literature
  • The Relations between Jews and Arabs-Syrians in Pre-Islamic Jewish Sources
  • Saadia Gaon and Abraham Ibn Ezra and Their Defense of the Written and Oral Torah
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index of Sources
  • Index of Authors
  • Index of Subjects
  • Index of Key Hebrew Terms and Expressions.

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