Creating space between peshat and derash
Subtitle: a collection of studies on Tanakh
By: Hayyim J. Angel
Publisher: KTAV Pub. House in association with Sephardic Publication Foundation
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Jersey City, NJ
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781602801769
Subjects: Criticism, interpretation; Bible
Table of contents: title: Abarbanel : commentator and teacher : celebrating years of his influence on Tanakh study; title: "The chosen people" : an ethical challenge; title: Hur and Pharaoh's daughter : midrashic readings of silent heroes; title: Why did Moses not apologize after his sin at Meribah?; title: Where the rules of peshat and pesak collide : Deuteronomy and prophetic narratives; title: Moonlit leadership : a midrashic reading of Joshua's success; title: War against Canaan : divine and human perspectives; title: "I am the seer" : objective and subjective elements of Samuel's relationship to Saul and the monarchy in I Samuel 8-16; title: Reading the Bible forward and backward : the sins of David and Solomon; title: There never again rose a prophet like Moses : except perhaps Ezekiel?; title: Ezekiel : priest-prophet; title: The book of Joel : anticipating a post-prophetic age; title: The end of prophecy : Malachi's position in the spiritual development of Israel; title: God insists on truth : rabbinic evaluations of two audacious Biblical prayers; title: The differences between the wise and the foolish in Psalms : theodicy, understanding providence, and religious responses; title: A woman of valor has been found : Ruth amidst a sea of ambiguity; title: Peshat and derash in Megillat Esther; title: The contrasting leadership models of Ezra and Nehemiah; title: Entering the Holy of Holies : the Yom Kippur experience in Tanakh and liturgy; title: Our journey in the Haggadah : how its narratives and observances enable us to experience the Exodus.