Three Approaches to Biblical Metaphor : : From Abraham Ibn Ezra and Maimonides to David Kimhi / / Mordechai Z. Cohen.

• Superior document: Études Sur le Judaïsme Médiéval Series ; Volume 26
• VerfasserIn: Cohen, Mordechai Z.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands : : Koninklijke Brill NV,, [2007]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: E´tudes sur le judai¨sme me´die´val ; Volume 26.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

This volume explores how the poetic technique of biblical metaphor was analyzed within the Jewish exegetical tradition that developed in Muslim Spain during the Golden Age of Hebrew poetry and was then transplanted to a Christian milieu. Abraham Ibn Ezra and Maimonides applied concepts from Arabic poetics, hermeneutics and logic to define metaphor and interpret it within their philological-literary readings of Scripture. David Kimhi integrated their methodologies with the midrashic creativity and sensitivity to nuance typical of his native Provence to create a new literary interpretive system that highlights the expressiveness of metaphor. This study is important for readers interested in metaphor, the Bible as literature, the history of biblical interpretation and the inter-relation between Arabic and Hebrew learning.