Jewish Ways of Reading the Bible
Series: Journal of Semitic Studies Supplement; 11;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 15 February 2001
- ISBN 9780198509189
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages332 pages
- Size 249x165x24 mm
- Weight 844 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This volume is a rich and varied collection of studies by major experts in the field of Jewish biblical interpretation. In exemplary studies covering classical, medieval and modern uses of the Bible, the authors address the issues of Jewish attitudes to, and use of, the Bible through the centuries.
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This volume contains 16 papers presented to the 1999 Annual Meeting of the British Association of Jewish Studies held in Manchester. The conference theme was "Jewish Ways of Reading the Bible". Participants addressed the theme from a wide range of different perspectives; classical, medieval and modern. The result is a book which illustrates the richness and diversity of Jewish attitudes to scripture.
Especially significant contributions discuss the plain meaning of scripture in the Qumran (Brooke), the Targumim (Bernstein), the rabbinical attitudes to textual variants (Alexander), the methods of argument in the Mishnah (Samely), the place of the bible in an example of medieval liturgy (Loewe), and the treatment of some biblical women by Jewish authors both ancient and modern (McKay).
The volume also contains insightful discussions of inner biblical exegesis: of aspects of early Jewish interpretative method and Enoch and the writings of Philo, of the psychology of rabbinical commentators, of how the bible was read in medieval Jewish book illuminations, of morally problematic biblical passages, of whether the rabbinical discussions of the Flood provide insights for understanding the holocaust, and how the bible is treated in contemporary Jewish Sermons.
Table of Contents:
Reading the Bible in the Classical Age
The Original Oral Law
Who Wanted a Translation of the Pentateuch in Greek?
Daniel's 'Watchers' in Enochic Exegesis of Genesis 6:1-4
Reading the Plain Meaning of Scripture in the Dead Sea Scrolls
The Exegesis of Homer and Numerology as a Method for Interpreting the Bible in the Writing of Philo of Alexander
Delaying the Progress from Case to Case: Redundancy in the Halakhic Discourse of the Mishnah
The Aramaic Targumim: The Many Faces of the Jewish Biblical Experience
Reading the Bible in the Mediaeval Age
Is YHWH Yireh Jerusalem?
Why no Textual Criticism in Rabbinic Midrash? Reflection of the Textual Culture of the Rabbis
The Psychology of Oppositional Thinking in Rabbinic Biblical Commentary
The Structure of Hymnic Insertions in the Statutory Jewish Liturgy
Jewish Ways of Reading the Illuminated Bible
Reading the Bible in the Modern Age
'Eshet Hayil or 'Ishshah Zarah: Jewish Readings of Abigail and Bathesheba, both Ancient and Modern
Theodicy, the Flood and the Holocaust
'It is Difficult to Understand': Dealing with Morally Difficult Passages in the Hebrew Bible
The Bible in Contemporary Jewish Sermons
Indexes
Index of Biblical References
Index of Classical Sources
Index of Modern Authors
