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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Jane Dammen McAuliffe; Barry Walfish; Joseph Ward Goering |
| ISBN: | 0195137272 9780195137279 |
| OCLC Number: | 47091867 |
| Description: | xvii, 488 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | pt. 1. Medieval Jewish exegesis of the Bible. Introduction to medieval Jewish Biblical interpretation / Barry D. Walfish -- Search for truth in sacred scripture: Jews, Christians, and the authority to interpret / Stephen D. Benin -- Tension between literal interpretation and exegetical freedom: comparative observations on Saadia's method / Haggai Ben-Shammai -- Karaite commentaries on the Song of Songs from tenth-century Jerusalem / Daniel Frank -- Restoring the narrative: Jewish and Christian exegesis in the twelfth century / Michael A. Signer -- Rashbam as a "literary" exegete / Martin Lockshin -- Asceticism and eroticism in medieval Jewish philosophical and mystical exegesis of the Song of Songs / Elliot R. Wolfson -- Typology, narrative, and history: Isaac ben Joseph ha-Kohen on the Book of Ruth / Barry D. Walfish -- Method of doubts: problematizing the Bible in late medieval Jewish exegesis / Marc Saperstein -- Introducing scripture: the Accessus ad auctores in Hebrew exegetical literature from the thirteenth through the fifteenth centuries / Eric Lawee -- On the social role of Biblical interpretation: the case of Proverbs 22:6 / Alan Cooper -- pt. 2. Medieval Christian exegesis of the Bible. Introduction to medieval Christian Biblical interpretation / Joseph W. Goering -- Letter of the law: Carolingian exegetes and the Old Testament / Abigail Firey -- Four "senses" and four exegetes / Edward Synan -- Laudat sensum et significationem: Robert Grosseteste on the four senses of scripture / James R. Ginther -- Beryl Smalley, Thomas of Cantimpré, and the performative reading of scripture: a study of two exempla / Robert Sweetman -- Theological character of the scholastic "division of the text" with particular reference to the commentaries of Saint Thomas Aquinas / John F. Boyle -- Thomas of Ireland and his De tribus sensibus sacrae scripturae / Édouard Jeauneau -- Material swords and literal lights: the status of allegory in William of Ockham's Breviloquium on Papal power / A.J. Minnis -- pt. 3. Medieval exegesis of the Qurʼān. Introduction to medieval interpretation of the Qurʼān / Jane Dammen McAuliffe -- Discussion and debate in early commentaries of the Qurʼān / Fred Leemhuis -- Weaknesses in the arguments for the early dating of Qurʼānic commentary / Herbert Berg -- Scriptural "senses" in medieval Ṣūfī Qurʼān exegesis / Gerhard Böwering -- Are there allegories in Ṣūfī Qurʼān interpretation? / Hava Lazarus-Yafeh -- From the Sacred Mosque to the Remote Temple: Sūrat al-Isrāʼ between text and commentary / Angelika Neuwirth -- Qurʼānic exegesis and history / Gerald Hawting -- Self-referentiality of the Qurʼān: Sura 3:7 as an exegetical challenge / Stefan Wild -- Designation of "foreign" languages in the exegesis of the Qurʼān / Andrew Rippin -- Genre boundaries of Qurʼānic commentary / Jane Dammen McAuliffe. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Jane Dammen McAuliffe, Barry D. Walfish, and Joseph W. Goering. |
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With Reverence for the Word is both a readable and informative collection of essays important for the study of medieval scriptural exegesis. Shari L. Lowin, Journal of Near Eastern Studies
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