Scriptural Exegesis
The Shapes of Culture and the Religious Imagination: Essays in Honour of Michael Fishbane
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 26 February 2009
- ISBN 9780199206575
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages340 pages
- Size 241x163x24 mm
- Weight 694 g
- Language English 0
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Scriptural Exegesis gathers an international community of scholars to consider the history of biblical interpretation and to question how exegesis shapes spiritual and cultural creativity in the light of Michael Fishbane's groundbreaking work. Eighteen chapters chart approaches to scriptural texts from ancient to modern times.
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Scriptural Exegesis gathers voices from an international community of scholars to consider the many facets of the history of biblical interpretation and to question how exegesis shapes spiritual and cultural creativity. Divided into four broadly chronological sections that chart a variety of approaches from ancient to modern times, the essays examine texts and problems rooted in the ancient world yet still of concern today. Eighteen chapters incorporate the expertise of contributors from a diverse range of disciplines, including ancient religion, philosophy, mysticism, and folklore. Each embraces the challenge of explicating complex and often esoteric writings in light of Michael Fishbane's groundbreaking work in exegesis.
It is a fitting tribute to a distinguished scholar that this Festschrift covers so much ground ... these are detailed technical papers which offer penetrating analysis and fascinating insights into neglected aspects of the Jewish and Christian interpretative traditions.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
I: The ancient Near East and Hebrew Bible: The shape of the text
Myth as historia divina and historia sacra
The Neo-Assyrian origins of the canon formula in Deuteronomy 13:1
Traditum and traditio: The case of Deuteronomy 17:14-20
The riddle of Psalm 111
Calling God names: An inner-biblical approach to the Tetragrammaton
II: Intertestamental, postbiblical, and rabbinic literature: Reimagining the text
The Suffering Servant: From Isaiah to the Dead Sea Scrolls
The Work of the Chariot and the Work of Creation as mystical teachings in Philo of Alexandria
A rabbinic disquisition of Leviticus 26:3-13: A utopian vision between Jews and Christians
Yearning for intimacy: Pesikta d'Rav Kahana and the temple
'If the text had not been written, it could not be said'
III: The medieval period: A new textual imagination
Cain, Abel, and brutism
'Sage is preferable to prophet': Revisioning midrashic imagination
On angels and biblical exegesis in thirteenth-century Ashkenaz
'Virgil in the Basket': Narrative as hermeneutics in Hebrew literature of the Middle Ages
Fabula: Concerning Christian exegesis in the Middle Ages
Women reading the Song of Songs in the Christian tradition
IV: The modern period: The human and divine in the text
Finding the radiance in the text: A Habad hasidic interpretation of the Exodus
Between sensual and heavenly love: Franz Rosenzweig's reading of the Song of Songs
