The intellectual history and rabbinic culture of medieval Ashkenaz
By: Ephraim Kanarfogel
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Detroit
Language: eng
Number of pages: 565
ISBN-13: 9780814330241; 9780814338025
Subjects: Jewish religious education; Jewish learning and scholarship; Jews; Intellectual life; History; Jewish religious eduction
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: regnant perceptions and empirical evidence; title: Talmudic and halakhic studies: internal organization and societal models; title: Tosafist biblical exegesis in northern France at the end of the twelfth century: between peshat and derash; title: The contours of biblical interpretation during the early thirteenth century; title: Interpretations for a varied audience through the thirteenth century; title: Genres and strategies of piyyut composition among the Tosafists; title: Magic and mysticism in Tosafist literature and thought; title: Tosafist approaches to matters of belief and the implications for popular culture; title: Conclusion: Ashkenazic rabbinic culture in its plenitude.