Reading the Bible in the pre-modern world
Subtitle: interpretation, performance and image
By: edited by Chanita Goodblatt and Howard Kreisel
Series: The Goldstein-Goren Library of Jewish Thought -- 30; Sifriyat Goldshṭain-Goren be-maḥshevet Yiśraʼel -- 30.
Publisher: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Press
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Beer Sheva
Language: eng
Number of pages: 425
ISBN-13: 9789655363203
Copyright date: 2021
Subjects: Criticism, interpretation; History; Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish; Criticism, interpretation, etc., Christian; Bible
Description: interpretation, performance and image
Notes: This collection of essays explores the divergent, as well as complementary trends, in reading the Hebrew Bible in the pre-modern world. It does so by focusing on a variety of Jewish and Christian exegetical, literary and visual texts. The first part of this volume focuses on aspects of interpretation, performance and image in Christian readings of the Hebrew Bible, as evident in translations of the Bible, sermons, plays, treatises and paintings. The second part focuses on the Jewish understanding of Scripture in the Middle Ages, as evident in the running commentary on the books of the Pentateuch as well as in illuminated manuscripts and mystical texts. Together, they provide a forum of interdisciplinary scholarship that demonstrates the Bible's multivalent presence.--Back cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Chanita Goodblatt and Howard Kreisel; title: Christian Biblical Readings : Epic vs. Tragedy: The Book of Job and its Renaissance Readers / Hannibal Hamlin; title: The End of the Tudors: Unhappy Families in 2 Samuel and Hamlet / Lori Anne Ferrell; title: Israelite Return from Exile: Aspects of Silence in Works by Samuel Smith, John Bunyan, Abiezer Coppe and TheaurauJohn Tany / Noam Flinker; title: Vashti On Display: Medieval Christian Meditations on a Disobedient Queen / Tovi Bibring; title: Remaking Esther in Italian Art, Theater and Preaching / Nirit Ben-Aryeh Debby; title: Jewish Biblical Readings: Pregnant Contradictions: Inconsistencies in Rashi's Account of Esau's and Jacob's Religious and Moral Development in the Rashi Supercommentary Tradition / Eric Lawee; title: The Torah Comments of Yeḥiel of Paris: Mediating between Peshat and Derash / Ephraim Kanarfogel; title: Illuminating the Account of Creation (Ma'aseh Bereshit) in Hebrew Manuscripts from Ashkenaz / Sara Offenberg; title: Cultural Transfer, Conflict, and Creativity: How Ashkenazic Jews Retold the Story of the Binding of Isaac / Oren Cohen Roman; title: The Lord Saw that Leah was Hated:The Figure of Leah in Light of the Medieval Jewish-Christian Polemic / Oded Yisraeli; title: Essays: The Demonization of Laban in Jewish Tradition / Naomi Graetz; title: The Motif of God's Wrath from the Bible to the Zohar: Dividuation and Individuation of a Literary Character / Piero Capelli; title: Index.