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The rule of peshat : Jewish constructions of the plain sense of scripture in their Christian and Muslim contexts, 900-1270 /
This book looks at the peshat mode of reading the Bible (as opposed to the midrashic mode). The mode was present in the tenth to twelfth centuries. Peshat is the plain meaning of the text, the plain reading, the philological reading, the nonmystical reading. Our author explores how the peshat mode i...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
2020.
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| Colección: | Jewish culture and contexts.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This book looks at the peshat mode of reading the Bible (as opposed to the midrashic mode). The mode was present in the tenth to twelfth centuries. Peshat is the plain meaning of the text, the plain reading, the philological reading, the nonmystical reading. Our author explores how the peshat mode influenced Christian and Muslim schools of interpretation and vice versa; and how the peshat scholars broke from the midrashic mode of biblical interpretation. Spain, France, and the Middle East were important centers for the peshat mode"-- |
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| Notas: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 413 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9780812297010 0812297016 |