Rashi, biblical interpretation, and Latin learning in medieval Europe: a new perspective on an exegetical revolution
A new look at Rashi's innovative commentary that sheds unique light on medieval Jewish and Christian learning and Bible interpretation.
| Summary: | A new look at Rashi's innovative commentary that sheds unique light on medieval Jewish and Christian learning and Bible interpretation. Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Key Challenges in Rashi Scholarship -- Understanding Rashi in Light of St. Bruno -- Outline of this Study -- 1 A New Program of Peshat ("Plain Sense" Exegesis) -- Rashi and his Peshat School -- The Text of Rashi's Commentaries -- Three Paradigms that Privilege "the Peshat of Scripture" -- Rashi's Key Exegetical Concepts and Terminology -- 2 "Settling" the Words of Scripture Using Midrash -- Midrashic Rendering of the Biblical Narrative -- Typological Reading -- Halakhic Reading -- Disregarding the Talmudic Peshat Maxim -- Rashi's Dual Interpretive Goal -- 3 St. Bruno on Psalms: Precedent for Rashi? -- Grammatical Interpretive Method -- The Historical/Literal Sense -- Continuity and Sequence -- Authorial Intention -- Bruno and Rashi: Assessing Parallels and Possible Influence -- 4 Comparison to the Andalusian Exegetical School -- Ties to Judeo-Arabic Scholarship -- Samuel ben Hofni's Construction of Peshat -- Ibn Janah's Construction of Peshat -- Further Development of the Peshat Maxim in the Andalusian Tradition -- Andalusian Conceptions of Peshat vs. Christian Sensus Litteralis -- 5 Comparison to the Byzantine Exegetical School -- Reuel and the Scholia on the Pentateuch -- A Possible Source for Rashi? -- "The Peshat of Scripture" in Leqaḥ Ṭov -- Peshat in Tobiah ben Eliezer's Song of Songs Commentary -- 6 Rashi's Literary Sensibilities and Latin Grammatica -- Critical Selection of Traditional (Midrashic, Patristic) Commentaries -- Prologue Format and "the Holy Spirit" -- Literary Structure: Ordo Artificialis vs. Ordo Naturalis -- 7 Rashi's Notion of "the Poet" (ha-Meshorer) in the Latin Context -- The "Poet's" Structural Intentions -- Shifts in Perspective, Addressee, and Theme. |
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| ISBN: | 1108560202 |