George John Brooke (ed.)

Jewish Ways of Reading the Bible

Herausgeber: Brooke, George J

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume contains 16 papers presented to the 1999 Annual Meeting of the British Association of Jewish Studies held in Manchester. The conference theme was "Jewish Ways of Reading the Bible". Participants addressed the theme from a wide range of different perspectives; classical, medieval and modern. The result is a book which illustrates the richness and diversity of Jewish attitudes to scripture. Especially significant contributions discuss the plain meaning of scripture in the Qumran (Brooke), the Targumim (Bernstein), the rabbinical attitudes to textual variants (Alexander), the methods of argument in the Mishnah (Samely), the place of the bible in an example of medieval liturgy (Loewe), and the treatment of some biblical women by Jewish authors both ancient and modern (McKay). The volume also contains insightful discussions of inner biblical exegesis: of aspects of early Jewish interpretative method and Enoch and the writings of Philo, of the psychology of rabbinical commentators, of how the bible was read in medieval Jewish book illuminations, of morally problematic biblical passages, of whether the rabbinical discussions of the Flood provide insights for understanding the holocaust, and how the bible is treated in contemporary Jewish Sermons.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juni 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 164mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 837g
• ISBN-13: 9780198509189
• ISBN-10: 0198509189
• Artikelnr.: 21689228

Autorenporträt

Dr. George Brooke has been at the University of Manchester since 1984, first as a lecturer in Intertestemental Literature, and since 1994, as Senior Lecturer. In 1997 he became Professor of Biblical Studies and in 1998 became the Rylands Professor of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis.

Inhaltsangabe

* Reading the Bible in the Classical Age
* 1: Bernard S. Jackson: The Original Oral Law
* 2: Nina L. Collins: Who Wanted a Translation of the Pentateuch in
Greek?
* 3: Siam Bhayro: Daniel's 'Watchers' in Enochic Exegesis of Genesis
6:1-4
* 4: George J. Brooke: Reading the Plain Meaning of Scripture in the
Dead Sea Scrolls
* 5: Niclas Förster: The Exegesis of Homer and Numerology as a Method
for Interpreting the Bible in the Writing of Philo of Alexander
* 6: Alexander Samely: Delaying the Progress from Case to Case:
Redundancy in the Halakhic Discourse of the Mishnah
* 7: Moshe J. Bernstein: The Aramaic Targumim: The Many Faces of the
Jewish Biblical Experience
* Reading the Bible in the Mediaeval Age
* 8: Clive Fierstone: Is YHWH Yireh Jerusalem?
* 9: Philip S. Alexander: Why no Textual Criticism in Rabbinic Midrash?
Reflection of the Textual Culture of the Rabbis
* 10: Brian L. Lancaster: The Psychology of Oppositional Thinking in
Rabbinic Biblical Commentary
* 11: Raphael Loewe: The Structure of Hymnic Insertions in the
Statutory Jewish Liturgy
* 12: Eva Frojmovic: Jewish Ways of Reading the Illuminated Bible
* Reading the Bible in the Modern Age
* 13: Heather A. McKay: 'Eshet Hayil or 'Ishshah Zarah: Jewish Readings
of Abigail and Bathesheba, both Ancient and Modern
* 14: Moshe Ish-Horowicz: Theodicy, the Flood and the Holocaust
* 15: Harry Lesser: 'It is Difficult to Understand': Dealing with
Morally Difficult Passages in the Hebrew Bible
* 16: Christine M. Pilkington: The Bible in Contemporary Jewish Sermons
* Indexes
* Index of Biblical References
* Index of Classical Sources
* Index of Modern Authors