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"In this almost painfully beautiful book . . . Fishbane . . . explores the question of the kind of canon, privileged status, or Logos, the Torah actually has for the post-modern Western Jew. " -Theology Today
"A book well worth reading." -The Jerusalem Post
"This wonderful volume documents the intellectual and spiritual odyssey of one of North America's foremost Jewish biblical scholars." -Shofar
List of contents
Preface
I. THE HERMENEUTICS OF SCRIPTURE IN FORMATION
1. Inner-Biblical Exegesis: Types and Strategies of Interpretation in Ancient Israel
2. Extra-Biblical Exegesis: The Sense of Not Reading in Rabbinic Midrash
3. The Garments of Torah-Or, to What May Scripture Be Compared?
II. SCRIPTURAL HERMENEUTICS AND THE FORMS OF CULTURE
4. Israel and the Mothers
5. From Scribalism to Rabbinism: Perspectiveson the Emergence of Classical Judaism
III. HERMENEUTICS, SCRIPTURE, AND THE PRESENT HOUR
6. The Biblical Dialogue of Martin Buber
7. Martin Buber's Moses
8. Speech and Scripture: The Grammatical Thinking and Theology of Franz Rosenzweig
9. The Teacher and the Hermeneutical Task: A Reinterpretation of Medieval Exegesis
Conclusion: The Notion of a Sacred Text
Notes
Index
About the author
Michael Fishbane
Summary
Explores the question of the kind of canon, privileged status, or Logos, the Torah actually has for the post-modern Western Jew. This book documents the intellectual and spiritual odyssey of one of North America's foremost Jewish biblical scholars.
