Internal Restraints on Gezerah Shawah's Application

Gezerah shawah, one of the thirteen classical midrashic methods, connects two pentateuchal verses by comparing similar words which appear in each thus allowing one verse to clarify some ambiguity, usually legal, in the other. Occasionally both verses clarify each other. Not all similar words in the...

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Main Author: Chernick, Michael (Author)
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Published: Penn Press 1990
In: The Jewish quarterly review
Year: 1990, Volume: 80, Issue: 3/4, Pages: 253-282
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