Peshat and Derash - Plain and Applied Meaning in Rabbinic Exegesis

Zusatztext Reviews from the hardback: Weiss Halivni's latest volume is ... particularly timely ... Weiss Halivni has given us a valuable tool for the understanding of rabbinic hermeneutics! and one which will interest all students of legal texts! literary hermeneutics! and scriptural method. Klappentext This book offers a new explanation for the willingness of the early Sages to attribute to scripture meanings nowhere suggested in the text itself. Halvini contends that the consciousness of what is meant by the meaning of a biblical text differs from period to period. He documents his thesis with detailed analysis of an extensive variety of passages from talmudic and medieval literature. Zusammenfassung This text offers an explanation in this text for the willingness of the early sages to attribute to scripture meanings not suggested in the text itself. The author posits a sharp discontinuity between what the sages considered a valid meaning and our own modern understanding of textual meaning.

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• Authors: David Weiss Halivni, David Weiss (Professor of Religious Studi Halivni, David Weiss (Professor of Religious Studies Halivni
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.1997
• EAN: 9780195115710
• ISBN: 978-0-19-511571-0
• No. of pages: 270
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; RELIGION / Judaism / General, RELIGION / Christianity / General, RELIGION / Biblical Studies / General, Christianity, Judaism, Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts, Biblical Studies & Exegesis, Criticism & Exegesis Of Sacred Texts