Philosopher of Scripture
Subtitle: The Exegesis and Thought of Tan&#7717;um Ha-Yerushalmi
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 479
ISBN-13: 9789004382213
Subjects: Bible, commentaries, o. t. minor prophets; Bible, commentaries, o. t. poetical books
Description: "Tanḥum b. Joseph ha-Yerushalmi (d. 1291, Fusṭaṭ, Egypt) was a rigorous linguist and philologist, philosopher and mystic, and a biblical exegete of singular breadth. As well as providing us with an insight into the inner world of a profound and original thinker, his oeuvre sheds light on a Jewish historical and cultural milieu that remains relatively poorly understood: the Islamic East in the post-Maimonidean period.In A Philosopher of Scripture: The Exegesis and Thought of Tanḥum ha-Yerushalmi, Raphael Dascalu presents the first detailed intellectual portrait of Tanḥum ha-Yerushalmi. Tanḥum emerges as a polymath with a clear intellectual program, an eclectic thinker who brought multiple traditions together in his search for the philosophical meaning of Scripture"--