Biblical text and exegetical culture : Collected essays / Michael Fihbane.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fishbane, Michael, 1943- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. Old Testament--Hermeneutics--History.

Bible.

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

Bible. Old Testament.

Judaism--History of doctrines.

Judaism.

Jewish religious literature--Hermeneutics--History.

Jewish religious literature.

Hermeneutics.

History.

Physical Description:

620 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2021.

Summary:

"In this wide-ranging collection, Michael Fishbane investigates the complex and diverse relationships between the 'biblical text' and 'exegetical culture.' The author demonstrates the multiple literary dimensions and interpretative strategies that came to form the Hebrew Bible in the context of the ancient Near East, the Dead Sea Scrolls in the context of an emergent biblical-Jewish culture, and the classical rabbinic Midrash in the context of an emergent rabbinic civilization in late antiquity. Within each study, and in the collection as a whole, the author shows a broad range of creative methods, always with a scholarly concern to illuminate the religious ideas of Scripture as it was perceived through diverse hermeneutical lenses and exegetical methodologies. The studies range from the purely literary to the highly analytic, from myth to law, and from studies of symbols to the study of exegetical methods." --Provided by publisher

Contents:

Biblical Israel

1. Composition and Structure in the Jacob Cycle (Genesis 25:19-35:22): Formations of Epic Narrative

2. Historical Narrative and Narrative Poetics in 1 Samuel 3: Composition and Creativity

3. Prophetic Loneliness and Anguish in Jeremiah 20:7-12: Suffering and Subjectivity

4. Creation, Torah, and Hope: The Theological Construction of Psalm 19

5. Biblical Prophecy as a Religious Phenomenon

6. Israel and the "Mothers"

7. Varia Deuteronomica

8. Biblical Colophons, Textual Criticism, and Legal Analogies

9. Accusations of Adultery: A Study of Law and Scribal Practice in Numbers 5:11-31

10. Census and Intercession in a Priestly Text (Exodus 30:11-16) and in its Midrashic Transformation

11. Form and Reformulation of the Biblical Priestly Blessing (Numbers 6:23-27)

12. Inner-Biblical Exegesis: Types and Strategies of Interpretation in Ancient Israel

13. Revelation and Tradition: Aspects of Inner-Biblical Exegesis

14. Hermeneutical and Spiritual Transformations of "Torah"-Instruction in Biblical and Rabbinic Tradition

15. Law to Canon: Some "Ideal-Typical" Stages of Development.

Transition

16. The Qumran Pesher and Traits of Ancient Hermeneutics

17. Use, Authority, and Interpretation of Mikra at Qumran

18. The Well of Living Water: A Biblical Motif and its Ancient Transformations

19. Through a Looking Glass: Reflections on Ezekiel 43:3, Numbers 12:8, and 1 Corinthians 13:8

20. From Scribalism to Rabbinism: Perspectives on the Emergence of Classical Judaism.

Ancient Judaism

21. Midrash and the Meaning of Scripture

22. Exegetical Theology and Divine Suffering in Jewish Thought

23. Five Stages of Jewish Myth and Mythmaking

24. "The Holy One Sits and Roars": Mythopoesis and the Midrashic Imagination

25. Arm of the Lord: Biblical Myth, Rabbinic Midrash, and the Mystery of History

26. Some Forms of Divine Appearance in Ancient Jewish Thought

27. The "Measures" of God's Glory in Ancient Midrash

28. The Inwardness of Joy and Jewish Spirituality

29. The Imagination of Death in Jewish Spirituality

30. Action and Non-Action in Jewish Spirituality

31. Aspects of Jewish Magic in the Ancient Rabbinic Period

32. The Song of Songs and Ancient Jewish Religiosity: Between Eros and History

33. Aspects of the Transformation of Sacrifice in Judaism

34. Legal Authority and Moral Character: A Case Study in Rabbinic Law and Theology

35. Law, Story, and Interpretation: Reading Rabbinic Texts

36. Text and Canon.

Conclusion

37. Canonical Texts, Covenantal Communities, and the Patterns of Exegetical Culture: Reflections on the Past Century.

Notes:

Includes indexes.

ISBN:

3161520491

9783161520495

OCLC:

1261051384