Textual reasonings
Subtitle: Jewish philosophy and text study at the end of the twentieth century
By: edited by Peter Ochs & Nancy Levene.
Contributors: Ochs, Peter, 1950-; Levene, Nancy.
Series: Radical traditions
Publisher: Eerdmans
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Grand Rapids, Mich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
Subjects: Bible. O.T. -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.; Rabbinical literature -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Anthological midrash and cultural paideia: the case of Songs Rabba 1.2 / Michael Fishbane; title: "The kisses of his mouth": intimacy and intermediacy as performative aspects of a midrash community / Steven Fraade; title: Fishbane's commentary to Song of Songs Rabba as analytic textual reasoning / Steven Kepnes; title: Revelation revealed: the doubt of Torah / Tikva Frymer-Kensky; title: Revelation revealed or reveiled?: "Jewish" and "Christian" interpretation in late antiquity / Virginia Burrus; title: Response to "Revelation revealed" / Aryeh Cohen; title: Gold and silver: philosophical Talmud / Robert Gibbs, Peter Ochs; title: Rabbis of gold and sages of silver: a response to "Philosophical Talmud" / Shaul Magid; title: Why Talmud: renewing response / Robert Gibbs; title: Talmudic scholarship as textual reasoning: Halivni's pragmatic historiography / Peter Ochs; title: Response to "Talmudic scholarship as textual reasoning" / David Halivni; title: Textual reasoning and Jewish philosophy: the next phase of Jewish postmodernity? / Eugene Borowitz; title: Textual reasoning, modernity and the limits of history / Jacob Meskin; title: Textual reasoning and cultural memory: a response to Jacob Meskin / Martin Kavka; title: Exegesis, redemption and the maculate Torah / Randi Rashkover; title: Elu ve-elu: textual difference and sublime judgement in Eruvin and Lyotard / Zachary Braiterman; title: Seeing the doubting judge: Jewish ethics and the postmodern project / Laurie Zoloth; title: Franz Rosenzweig, the 1920s and the <email> moment of textual reasoning / Michael Zank; title: Progress in textual reasoning: from Vatican II to the conference at Drew / George Lindbeck; title: Responding to textual reasoning: what might Christians learn? / David Ford; title: Textual reasoning: a concluding reflection / Daniel Hardy; title: Epilogues / Nancy Levene, Peter Ochs.