Scriptural exegesis

Scriptural exegesis the shapes of culture and the religious imagination / [electronic resource] : essays in honour of Michael Fishbane ; edited by Deborah A. Green and Laura S. Lieber. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2009. - 1 online resource (xiv, 324 p.)

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Myth as historia divina and historia sacra / Jan Assman -- The Neo-Assyrian origins of the canon formula in Deuteronomy 13:1 / Bernard M. Levinson -- Traditum and tradition : the case of Deuteronomy 17:14-20 / Ernest Nicholson -- The riddle of Psalm 111 / Marc Zvi Brettler -- Calling God names : an inner-biblical approach to the Tetragrammaton / William M. Schniedewind -- The suffering servant : from Isaiah to the Dead Sea scrolls / Idrael Knohl -- The work of the chariot and the work of creation as mystical teachings in Philo of Alexandria Yehuda Liebes -- A rabbinic disquisition of Leviticus 26:3-13 : a utopian vision between Jews and Christians / Joanna Weinberg -- Yearning for intimacy : Pseikta d'Rav Kahana and the Temple / Marc Hirshman -- 'If the text had not been written, it could not be said' / Moshe Halbertal -- Cain, Abel, and brutism / Kalman P. Bland -- 'Sage' is preferable to 'prophet' : revisioning midrashic imagination / Elliott R. Wolfson - On angels and biblical exegesis in thirteenth-century Ashkenaz / Moshe Idel -- 'Virgil in the basket: narrative as hermeneutics in Hebrew literature of the Midlle Ages / Eli Yassif -- Fabula, between [mythos] and [aggadah] : concerning Christian exegesis during the Middle Ages / Gilbert Dahan -- Women reading the Song of songs in the Christian tradition / Bernard McGinn -- Finding the radiance in the text : a Habad hasidic interpretation of the Exodus / Naftali Loewenthal -- Between sensual and heavenly love : Franz Rosenzweig's readings of the Song of Songs / Paul Mendes-Flohr.

9780191548550 (electronic bk.) 0191548553 (electronic bk.)


Fishbane, Michael A.--Influence.


Bible--Criticism, interpretation, etc.


Electronic books.

BS476 / .S38 2009eb

220.601