Download or read book Discerning Parallelism written by Robert Alan Harris and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parallelism and medieval poetics in modern scholarship -- "Contextual reading"--the development of peshat in northern France -- Rashi -- Joseph Kara -- Rabbi Samuel ben Meir (Rashbam) -- Rabbi Eliezer of Beaugency -- Rabbi Joseph Bekhor Shor -- Postscript--The question of the influence of Jewish methodological approaches on contemporary Christian biblical exegetes.
Download or read book The Dynamics of Biblical Parallelism written by Adele Berlin and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding of biblical poetry is enhanced by the study of its structure. In this book Adele Berlin analyzes parallelism, a major feature of Hebrew poetry, from a linguistic perspective. This new edition of Berlin's study features an additional chapter, "The Range of Biblical Metaphors inSmikhut,"by late Russian linguist Lida Knorina. Berlin calls this addition "innovative and instructive to those who value the linguistic analysis of poetry." It is a fitting coda to Berlin's adept analysis.
Download or read book The Rule of Peshat written by Mordechai Z. Cohen and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2020-05-29 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the theoretical underpinnings of the philological method of Jewish Bible interpretation known as peshat Within the rich tradition of Jewish biblical interpretation, few concepts are as vital as peshat, often rendered as the "plain sense" of Scripture. Generally contrasted with midrash—the creative and at times fanciful mode of reading put forth by the rabbis of Late Antiquity—peshat came to connote the systematic, philological-contextual, and historically sensitive analysis of the Hebrew Bible, coupled with an appreciation of the text's literary quality. In The Rule of "Peshat," Mordechai Z. Cohen explores the historical, geographical, and theoretical underpinnings of peshat as it emerged between 900 and 1270. Adopting a comparative approach that explores Jewish interactions with Muslim and Christian learning, Cohen sheds new light on the key turns in the vibrant medieval tradition of Jewish Bible interpretation. Beginning in the tenth century, Jews in the Middle East drew upon Arabic linguistics and Qur'anic study to open new avenues of philological-literary exegesis. This Judeo-Arabic school later moved westward, flourishing in al-Andalus in the eleventh century. At the same time, a revolutionary peshat school was pioneered in northern France by the Ashkenazic scholar Rashi and his circle of students, whose methods are illuminated by contemporaneous trends in Latinate learning in the Cathedral Schools of France. Cohen goes on to explore the heretofore little-known Byzantine Jewish exegetical tradition, basing his examination on recently discovered eleventh-century commentaries and their offshoots in southern Italy in the twelfth century. Lastly, this study focuses on three pivotal figures who represent the culmination of the medieval Jewish exegetical tradition: Abraham Ibn Ezra, Moses Maimonides, and Moses Nahmanides. Cohen weaves together disparate Jewish disciplines and external cultural influences through chapters that trace the increasing force acquired by the peshat model until it could be characterized, finally, as the "rule of peshat": the central, defining feature of Jewish hermeneutics into the modern period.
Download or read book Jewish Concepts of Scripture written by Benjamin D. Sommer and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do Jews think scripture is? How do the People of the Book conceive of the Book of Books? In what ways is it authoritative? Who has the right to interpret it? Is it divinely or humanly written? And have Jews always thought about the Bible in the same way? In seventeen cohesive and rigorously researched essays, this volume traces the way some of the most important Jewish thinkers throughout history have addressed these questions from the rabbinic era through the medieval Islamic world to modern Jewish scholarship. They address why different Jewish thinkers, writers, and communities have turned to the Bible—and what they expect to get from it. Ultimately, argues editor Benjamin D. Sommer, in understanding the ways Jews construct scripture, we begin to understand the ways Jews construct themselves.
Download or read book Reading the Poetry of First Isaiah written by J. Blake Couey and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows that Isaiah 1-39 contains one of the most remarkable and provocative poetic voices in the Hebrew Bible, and that attention to its poetic style makes a significant difference to the interpretation of the text.
Download or read book Rashi Biblical Interpretation and Latin Learning in Medieval Europe written by Mordechai Z. Cohen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-29 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new look at Rashi's innovative commentary that sheds unique light on medieval Jewish and Christian learning and Bible interpretation.
Download or read book As Those Who Are Taught written by Claire Mathews McGinnis and published by Society of Biblical Lit. This book was released on 2006 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Hermeneutics of Christological Psalmody in Paul written by Matthew Scott and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-12 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of psalms echoed in Paul's letters, offering a reinterpretation of the New Testament's reception of the Old Testament.
Download or read book A New Song written by Stephen D. Campbell and published by Lexham Academic. This book was released on 2023-12-13 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fresh riches of biblical poetry for communities of faith A New Song includes nine essays on the hidden intricacies of poetry in the Hebrew Bible, ten poems in dialogue with biblical poetry, and three reflective responses. On Reading Genesis 49: How Hebrew Poetry Communicates Then and Now (John Goldingay) Shirat Ha-Yam (the Song of the Sea) in Jewish and Christian Liturgical Tradition (C.T.R. Hayward) Hannah's Prayer (1 Samuel 2:1–10): On the Interface of Poetics and Ethics in an Embedded Poem (David G. Firth) Bending the Silence: Reading Psalms through the Arts (Ellen F. Davis) Psalms "Translated" for Life in the 21st Century – A South African perspective (June F. Dickie) Prosody and Preaching: Poetic Form and Religious Function in Biblical Verse (Benjamin D. Sommer) "With Fists Flailing at the Gates of Heaven": Wrestling with Psalm 88, A Psalm for Chronic Illness (Shai Held) Truth and Hidden Things: Reading Isaiah 45:9–25 as Scripture (Katie M. Heffelfinger) The Dynamic Relationship between God and Man in the Book of Hosea: A Dynamic – Synchronic Reading (Yisca Zimran) Poems by Maria Apichella, Kilby Austin, Edward Clarke, Jacqueline Osherow, Micheal O'Siadhail, Richard G. Rohlfing Jr., and Jock Stein. Edited by Stephen D. Campbell, Richard G. Rohlfing Jr., and Richard S. Briggs, A New Song brings together a diverse roster of Jewish and Christian scholars to explore biblical Hebrew poetic texts within the context—and for the benefit—of communities of faith. These thoughtful essays and poems encourage readers to join in the singing of the old songs anew.
Download or read book The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics written by Stephen Cushman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-26 with total page 1678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most important poetry reference for more than four decades—now fully updated for the twenty-first century Through three editions over more than four decades, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics has built an unrivaled reputation as the most comprehensive and authoritative reference for students, scholars, and poets on all aspects of its subject: history, movements, genres, prosody, rhetorical devices, critical terms, and more. Now this landmark work has been thoroughly revised and updated for the twenty-first century. Compiled by an entirely new team of editors, the fourth edition—the first new edition in almost twenty years—reflects recent changes in literary and cultural studies, providing up-to-date coverage and giving greater attention to the international aspects of poetry, all while preserving the best of the previous volumes. At well over a million words and more than 1,000 entries, the Encyclopedia has unparalleled breadth and depth. Entries range in length from brief paragraphs to major essays of 15,000 words, offering a more thorough treatment—including expert synthesis and indispensable bibliographies—than conventional handbooks or dictionaries. This is a book that no reader or writer of poetry will want to be without. Thoroughly revised and updated by a new editorial team for twenty-first-century students, scholars, and poets More than 250 new entries cover recent terms, movements, and related topics Broader international coverage includes articles on the poetries of more than 110 nations, regions, and languages Expanded coverage of poetries of the non-Western and developing worlds Updated bibliographies and cross-references New, easier-to-use page design Fully indexed for the first time
Download or read book The Challenge of Received Tradition written by Naomi Grunhaus and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes the consistent ways Radak (R. David Kimhi, c. 1160-1232) juxtaposes plain, contextual exegesis (peshat) within his biblical commentaries alongside ancient modes of rabbinic interpretation (derash). In addition, the book explores his criteria for challenging rabbinic teachings, both in narrative and legal contexts.
Download or read book After Ezekiel written by Paul M. Joyce and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-03-13 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays on the reception history of the book of Ezekiel, arising from the work of the SBL section ‘Theological Perspectives on the Book of Ezekiel'
Download or read book Creating Fictional Worlds written by Hanna Liss and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-01-11 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the literary and narrative patterns in Rashbam’s Torah Commentary this book offers a comprehensive rereading of one of the first Northern French peshaṭ-commentaries and shows Rashbam’s fascinating struggle to compete with the nascent vernacular literature.
Download or read book Rabbi Eliezer of Beaugency Commentaries on Amos and Jonah With Selections from Isaiah and Ezekiel written by Robert A Harris and published by Medieval Institute Publications. This book was released on 2018-04-12 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rabbi Eliezer of Beaugency represents the pinnacle of twelfth-century rabbinic exegesis of the Bible. A proponent of the literal school, Eliezer completely abandoned traditional rabbinic midrash in his explication of biblical texts, and innovated a literary approach that anticipated the fruits of modern scholarship in virtually every paragraph. This volume presents, for the first time in English translation, an extended window into the oeuvre of this master interpreter.
Download or read book Handbook of Jewish Languages written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook, the first of its kind, includes descriptions of the ancient and modern Jewish languages other than Hebrew, including historical and linguistic overviews, numerous text samples, and comprehensive bibliographies.
Download or read book Thinking Through Chr tien de Troyes written by Zrinka Stahuljak and published by DS Brewer. This book was released on 2011 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This co-written book challenges assumptions about Chrétien as the author of a canon of works. In a series of exchanges, its five authors reassess the relationship between lyric and romance, between individuality and social conditions, and between psychology and medieval philosophy.
Download or read book Modern Conservative Judaism written by Elliot N. Dorff and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2018-06-01 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Conservative Movement insider's guide to the evolution of Conservative Jewish thought and practice over the last half century, offering insight into the diverse (and occasionally contentious) thought processes behind the movement's most important laws, policies, and documents"--
