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Jewish biblical interpretation and cultural exchange : comparative exegesis in context / edited by Natalie B. Dohrmann and David Stern.

Contributor(s): Dohrmann, Natalie B | Stern, David, 1949-
Material type: TextTextSeries: Jewish culture and contexts: Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2008]Copyright date: ©2008Description: viii, 340 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780812240740 (alk. paper); 081224074X (alk. paper)Subject(s): Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc | Bible -- Comparative studiesBibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
Interpreting Torah traditions in Psalm 105 / Adele Berlin -- Cain : son of God or son of Satan? / Israel Knohl -- Manumission and transformation in Jewish and Roman law / Natalie B. Dohrmann -- Lessons from Jerome's Jewish teachers : exegesis and cultural interaction in late antique Palestine / Megan Hale Williams -- Ancient Jewish interpretation of the Song of Songs in a comparative context / David Stern -- Patriarchy, primogeniture, and polemic in the exegetical traditions of Judaism and Islam / Reuven Firestone -- May Karaites eat chicken? indeterminacy in Sectarian Halakhic exegesis / Daniel Frank -- Early Islamic exegesis as legal theory : how Qur'anic wisdom (ḥikma) became the sunna of the prophet / Joseph E. Lowry -- Interpreting Scripture in and through liturgy : exegesis of mass propers in the Middle Ages / Daniel Sheerin -- Exegesis and polemic in Rashbam's commentary on the Song of Songs / Sara Japhet -- Literal versus carnal : George of Siena's Christian reading of Jewish exegesis / Deeana Copeland Klepper -- Christian and Jewish iconographies of Job in fifteenth-century Italy / Fabrizio Lelli.

Interpreting Torah traditions in Psalm 105 / Adele Berlin -- Cain : son of God or son of Satan? / Israel Knohl -- Manumission and transformation in Jewish and Roman law / Natalie B. Dohrmann -- Lessons from Jerome's Jewish teachers : exegesis and cultural interaction in late antique Palestine / Megan Hale Williams -- Ancient Jewish interpretation of the Song of Songs in a comparative context / David Stern -- Patriarchy, primogeniture, and polemic in the exegetical traditions of Judaism and Islam / Reuven Firestone -- May Karaites eat chicken? indeterminacy in Sectarian Halakhic exegesis / Daniel Frank -- Early Islamic exegesis as legal theory : how Qur'anic wisdom (ḥikma) became the sunna of the prophet / Joseph E. Lowry -- Interpreting Scripture in and through liturgy : exegesis of mass propers in the Middle Ages / Daniel Sheerin -- Exegesis and polemic in Rashbam's commentary on the Song of Songs / Sara Japhet -- Literal versus carnal : George of Siena's Christian reading of Jewish exegesis / Deeana Copeland Klepper -- Christian and Jewish iconographies of Job in fifteenth-century Italy / Fabrizio Lelli.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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