The garments of Torah : essays in biblical hermeneutics /

Main Author: Fishbane, Michael A.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, ©1992.
Edition:1st Midland book ed.
Series:Indiana studies in biblical literature
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Online Access:http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=11056
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The hermeneutics of scripture in formation: Inner-biblical exegesis: types and strategies of interpretation in ancient Israel
  • Extra-biblical exegesis: the sense of not reading in Rabbinic Midrash
  • The garments of Torah -or, to what may scripture be compared?
  • 2. Scriptural hermeneutics and the forms of culture: Israel and the "Mothers"
  • From scribalism to rabbinism: perspectives on the emergence of classical Judaism
  • 3. Hermeneutics, scripture, and the present hour: The biblical dialogue of Martin Buber
  • Martin Buber's Moses
  • Speech and scripture: the grammatical thinking and theology of Franz Rosenzweig
  • The teacher and the hermeneutical task: a reinterpretation of medieval exegesis
  • The notion of a sacred text.