Jewish Concepts of Scripture : A Comparative Introduction / Benjamin D. Sommer.
Sommer, Benjamin D., author.; Brettler, Marc Zvi, contributor.; Carmy, Shalom, contributor.; Cohen, Jonathan, contributor.; Diamond, James A., contributor.; Feldman, Yael S., contributor.; Fraade, Steven D., contributor.; Harris, Robert A., contributor.; Hughes, Aaron W., contributor.; Idel, Moshe, contributor.; Jindo, Job Y., contributor.; Polliack, Meira, contributor.; Schwartz, Baruch J., contributor.; Sommer, Benjamin D., contributor.; Stern, Elsie, contributor.; Yadin-Israel, Azzan, contributor.; Zakovitch, Yair, contributor.
2012
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Title Jewish Concepts of Scripture : A Comparative Introduction / Benjamin D. Sommer.
Author Sommer, Benjamin D., author.
ISBN 9780814724798
DOI https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814740620.001.0001
Published New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2012]
Copyright ©2012
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.18574/nyu/9780814740620.001.0001 doi
Call Number BS1186 .J474 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification 221.1
Summary 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.
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Added Author Brettler, Marc Zvi, contributor.
Carmy, Shalom, contributor.
Cohen, Jonathan, contributor.
Diamond, James A., contributor.
Feldman, Yael S., contributor.
Fraade, Steven D., contributor.
Harris, Robert A., contributor.
Hughes, Aaron W., contributor.
Idel, Moshe, contributor.
Jindo, Job Y., contributor.
Polliack, Meira, contributor.
Schwartz, Baruch J., contributor.
Sommer, Benjamin D., contributor.
Stern, Elsie, contributor.
Yadin-Israel, Azzan, contributor.
Zakovitch, Yair, contributor.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction
2 Concepts of Scripture in the Synagogue Service
3 Concepts of Scripture in Rabbinic Judaism: Oral Torah and Written Torah
4 Concepts of Scripture in the Schools of Rabbi Akiva and Rabbi Ishmael
5 Concepts of Scriptural Language in Midrash
6 Concepts of Scripture among the Jews of the Medieval Islamic World
7 Concepts of Scripture in the School of Rashi
8 Concepts of Scripture in Maimonides
9 Concepts of Scripture in Nahmanides
10 Concepts of Scripture in Jewish Mysticism
11 Concepts of Scripture in Martin Buber and Franz Rosenzweig
12 The Pentateuch as Scripture and the Challenge of Biblical Criticism
13 Concepts of Scripture in Yehezkel Kaufmann
14 Concepts of Scripture in Moshe Greenberg
15 Concepts of Scripture in Mordechai Breuer
16 Scripture and Modern Israeli Literature
17 Scripture and Israeli Secular Culture
Glossary
About the Contributors
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