Rabbinic Interpretation of Scripture in the Mishnah - Hardcover

Samely, Alexander

 
9780198270317: Rabbinic Interpretation of Scripture in the Mishnah
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0198270313 ISBN 13: 9780198270317
Verlag: Oxford University Press, 2002

Inhaltsangabe

In this book Dr Samely offers a systematic and detailed description of early rabbinic hermeneutics (midrash) as it can be reconstructed from the Mishnah (third century CE). The argument is based on a survey of all passages of biblical interpretation in this largely legal document. Dr Samely describes how the discourse of the rabbis appropriates Scripture while taking precise account of its wording. He clarifies the conditions of a modern appreciation of rabbinic hermeneutics and provides a unified set of concepts for its precise description, based on modern linguistics and philosophy of language. Basic features of rabbinic hermeneutics and its difference from modern historical reading are explained, and a catalogue of recurrent techniques of interpretation is defined. This catalogue lays new foundations for the analysis of rabbinic documents and the comparison with other hermeneutic traditions. Each technique is explained and illustrated with translations from the Mishnah. The book provides a manual of all techniques in systematic order and a comprehensive list of Mishnaic passages of interpretation together with their hermeneutic techniques.

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Alexander Samely is Senior Lecturer in Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Manchester University.

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Verlag
Oxford University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2002
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0198270313
ISBN 13 
9780198270317
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
496
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