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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cohen, Mordechai Z. (Autor)
Formato: eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020.
Colección:Jewish culture and contexts.
Temas:
Bible. > Old Testament > Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish > History > To 1500.
Bible. > Old Testament > Criticism, interpretation, etc. > History > To 1500.
Bible. > Old Testament > Islamic interpretations > History > To 1500.
Bible. > Old Testament > Commentaries > Early works to 1800.
Bible. > Old Testament.
To 1500
RELIGION / Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / Old Testament
Islamic interpretations of sacred works.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Early works.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • 1. Geonim and Karaites : appropriating methods of Qur'an interpretation
  • 2. The Andalusian School : linguistic and literary advances in the Muslim orbit
  • 3. Rashi : Peshat revolution in Northern France
  • 4. Qara and Rashbam : refining the Northern French Peshat model
  • 5. The Byzantine tradition : a newly discovered exegetical school
  • 6. Abraham Ibn Ezra : transplanted Andalusian Peshat model
  • 7. Maimonides : Peshat as the basis of Halakhah
  • 8. Nahmanides : a new model of scriptural multivalence.

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