Summoning: Ideas of the Covenant and Interpretive Theory

This book explores the variety of ways that the Jewish understanding of the Covenant relates to the notion of a contract or a shared grammar as developed in recent structural and post-structural theory. The book enters the debate on the relationship beween a variety of open-ended forms of text interpretation and traditional Jewish interpretive practice, expanding and deepening that debate. Until now, the discussion has focused primarily on Midrashic interpretation; these essays balance the assumption of the openness of interpretation with an exploration of the concurrent restrictions on interpretation imposed by a covenant.

About the author

Ellen Spolsky is Associate Professor at Bar-Ilan University, Israel and Director of the Lechter Institute for Literary Research.

Product details

• Assisted by: Ellen Spolsky (Editor)
• Publisher: Global Academic Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.08.1993
• EAN: 9780791415252
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-1525-2
• No. of pages: 272
• Weight: 553 g
• Series: Suny Series in the Social and; Suny Series in the Social and; Suny Modern Jewish Literature
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education