Jewish biblical interpretation and cultural exchange : comparative exegesis in context / edited by Natalie B. Dohrmann and David Stern.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dohrmann, Natalie B.

Stern, David, 1949-

University of Pennsylvania. Press.

Series:

Jewish culture and contexts

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. Old Testament--Comparative studies.

Bible.

Bible. Old Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish.

Bible. Old Testament.

Cultural relations--Religious aspects.

Cultural relations.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Comparative studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 340 pages :) : illustrations.

Other Title:

Penn Press e-books.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2008]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Summary:

Martha Himmelfarb considers a range of texts-including the Book of Watchers, Book of Jubilees, legal documents from the Dead Sea Scrolls, writings of Philo of Alexandria, and the Book of Revelation-to explore the tensions inherent in Second Temple Judaism's emphasis on ancestry as the primary criterion for inclusion among the chosen people of Israel.

Contents:

Interpreting Torah traditions in Psalm 105 / Adele Berlin

Cain : son of God or son of Satan? / Israel Knohl

Manumission and transformation in Jewish and Roman law / Natalie B. Dohrmann

Lessons from Jerome's Jewish teachers : exegesis and cultural interaction in late antique Palestine / Megan Hale Williams

Ancient Jewish interpretation of the Song of Songs in a comparative context / David Stern

Patriarchy, primogeniture, and polemic in the exegetical traditions of Judaism and Islam / Reuven Firestone

May Karaites eat chicken? indeterminacy in Sectarian Halakhic exegesis / Daniel Frank

Early Islamic exegesis as legal theory : how Qur'anic wisdom (ḥikma) became the sunna of the prophet / Joseph E. Lowry

Interpreting Scripture in and through liturgy : exegesis of mass propers in the Middle Ages / Daniel Sheerin

Exegesis and polemic in Rashbam's commentary on the Song of Songs / Sara Japhet

Literal versus carnal : George of Siena's Christian reading of Jewish exegesis / Deeana Copeland Klepper

Christian and Jewish iconographies of Job in fifteenth-century Italy / Fabrizio Lelli.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-325) and indexes.

Other Format:

Print version: Jewish biblical interpretation and cultural exchange.

ISBN:

9780812209457

0812209451

OCLC:

859162220

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.