Jewish biblical interpretation and cultural exchange
Subtitle: comparative exegesis in context
By: edited by Natalie B. Dohrmann and David Stern.
Contributors: Dohrmann, Natalie B.; Stern, David, 1949-
Series: Jewish culture and contexts
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780812240740
Subjects: Bible. -- O.T. -- Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish; Bible. -- O.T. -- Comparative studies
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-325) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Interpreting Torah traditions in Psalm 105 / Adele Berlin; title: Cain : son of God or son of Satan? / Israel Knohl; title: Manumission and transformation in Jewish and Roman law / Natalie B. Dohrmann; title: Lessons from Jerome's Jewish teachers : exegesis and cultural interaction in late antique Palestine / Megan Hale Williams; title: Ancient Jewish interpretation of the Song of Songs in a comparative context / David Stern; title: Patriarchy, primogeniture, and polemic in the exegetical traditions of Judaism and Islam / Reuven Firestone; title: May Karaites eat chicken? indeterminacy in Sectarian Halakhic exegesis / Daniel Frank; title: Early Islamic exegesis as legal theory : how Qur'anic wisdom (ḥikma) became the sunna of the prophet / Joseph E. Lowry; title: Interpreting Scripture in and through liturgy : exegesis of mass propers in the Middle Ages / Daniel Sheerin; title: Exegesis and polemic in Rashbam's commentary on the Song of Songs / Sara Japhet; title: Literal versus carnal : George of Siena's Christian reading of Jewish exegesis / Deeana Copeland Klepper; title: Christian and Jewish iconographies of Job in fifteenth-century Italy / Fabrizio Lelli.