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With reverence for the Word : medieval scriptural exegesis in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
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With reverence for the Word : medieval scriptural exegesis in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

Author: Jane Dammen McAuliffe; Barry Walfish; Joseph Ward Goering
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
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This volume is a trilateral exploration of medieval scriptural interpretation. It examines and discusses the vast literature the three exegetical traditions created in the Middle Ages - a literature  Read more...

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Material Type: Internet resource
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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