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Jewish Biblical Interpretation and Cultural Exchange
. Ed(S): Dohrmann, Natalie B.; Stern, David
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Description for Jewish Biblical Interpretation and Cultural Exchange
Biblical interpretation is not simply study of the Bible's meaning. This volume focuses on signal moments in the histories of scriptural interpretation of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam from the ancient period to the early modern, and shows how deeply intertwined these religions have always been. Editor(s): Dohrmann, Natalie B.; Stern, David. Series: Jewish Culture & Contexts. Num Pages: 352 pages, 7 illus. BIC Classification: HRJ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 247 x 165 x 36. Weight in Grams: 700.
Biblical interpretation is not simply study of the Bible's meaning. Historically, it has also served as a primary medium for cultural and religious exchange between the great religious traditions of the West. Focusing on moments of signal interest in the history of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic scriptural interpretation from the ancient, medieval, and early modern periods, Jewish Biblical Interpretation and Cultural Exchange offers a unique comparative perspective. Each of the essays treats its subject in relation to the larger cultural context and to other contemporary interpretative traditions. Sources and authors examined in the book include late biblical and early postbiblical ... Read more
Biblical interpretation is not simply study of the Bible's meaning. Historically, it has also served as a primary medium for cultural and religious exchange between the great religious traditions of the West. Focusing on moments of signal interest in the history of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic scriptural interpretation from the ancient, medieval, and early modern periods, Jewish Biblical Interpretation and Cultural Exchange offers a unique comparative perspective. Each of the essays treats its subject in relation to the larger cultural context and to other contemporary interpretative traditions. Sources and authors examined in the book include late biblical and early postbiblical ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Series
Jewish Culture & Contexts
Number of Pages
352
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780812240740
SKU
V9780812240740
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About . Ed(S): Dohrmann, Natalie B.; Stern, David
Natalie B. Dohrmann teaches in the Religious Studies Department and is the Director of Publications at the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. David Stern is Ruth Meltzer Professor of Classical Hebrew Literature at Penn. He is author of Midrash and Theory: Ancient Jewish Exegesis and Contemporary Literary Studies and Parables in Midrash: Narrative and Exegesis ... Read more
Reviews for Jewish Biblical Interpretation and Cultural Exchange
"No other anthology of scholarship on the Jewish interpretation of the Hebrew Bible covers the same chronological span (ancient through early modern) or has the same comparative and contextual emphasis (Jewish, Christian, Muslim, and Karaite) as this."-Steven Fraade, Yale University