Creative Biblical exegesis : Christian and Jewish hermeneutics through the centuries / edited by Benjamin Uffenheimer and Henning Graf Reventlow.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Reventlow, Henning Graf.

Uffenheimer, Benjamin.

Series:

Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 59.

Journal for the study of the Old Testament. Supplement series ; 59

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christianity and other religions--Judaism.

Christianity and other religions.

Judaism--Relations--Christianity.

Judaism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (229 pages)

Place of Publication:

[England] : JSOT Press, c1988.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

These papers were presented to a unique conference held in Israel in December 1985, sponsored by Tel Aviv University and the University of Bochum in the Federal Republic of Germany. Discussion of Christian and Jewish exegesis in historical perspective was not only mutually illuminating, but also laid the foundations for a new level of Jewish-Christian dialogue. The papers presented in this volume are: H. Graf Reventlow, Humanist Exegesis: The famous Hugo Grotius. Y. Hoffman, The Technique of Quotation as an Interpretative Device. D. Flusser, Past and Future according to the Creative Exegesis o

Contents:

Contents; Preface; List of Contributors; Abbreviations; Exegesis or Metaphrasis; Philo's Uniqueness and Particularity; Mystical and Realistic Elements in the Exegesis and Hermeneutics of Thomas Aquinas; 'Today if You Will Listen to this Voice' Creative Exegesis in Hebrews 3-4; The Function of the Bible in Recent Protestant Ethics; The Technique of Quotation and Citation as an Interpretive Device; Maimonides' Exegesis of the Book of Job; Literary Individuality as as Problem of Hermeneutics in the Hebrew Bible; A New Reading of the Bible? Ecumenical Perspectives from Latin America and Asia

The Bible and its Exegesis in the Controversies about Reform and Reformation; Courants et Contre-Courants dans l'Exégèse Biblique Juive en France au Moyen-Âge; Luther on Jews and Islam; Some Reflections on Modern Jewish Biblical Research; Humanistic Exegesis: The Famous Hugo Grotius; PANEL DISCUSSION; Index of Biblical References; Index of Authors and Exegetes

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9786611842093

9781281842091

1281842095

9780567105349

0567105342

OCLC:

276947543