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9780253207524

The Garments of Torah

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  • ISBN13:

    9780253207524

  • ISBN10:

    0253207525

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1992-09-01
  • Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr

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"In this almost painfully beautiful book... Fishbane... explores the question of the kind of canon, privileged status, or Logos, the Torah actually has for the post-modern Western Jew. " -- Theology Today"A book well worth reading." -- The Jerusalem Post"This wonderful volume documents the intellectual and spiritual odyssey of one of North America's foremost Jewish biblical scholars." -- Shofar

Table of Contents

Prefacep. ix
·1· Inner-Biblical Exegesis: Types and Strategies of Interpretation in Ancient Israelp. 3
·2· Extra-Biblical Exegesis: the Sense of Not Reading in Rabbinic Midrashp. 19
·3· The Garments of Torah-or, to What May Scripture Be Compared?p. 33
·4· Israel and the """"Mothers""""p. 49
·5· From Scribalism to Rabbinism: Perspectives on the Emergence of Classical Judaismp. 64
·6· The Biblical Dialogue of Martin Buberp. 81
·7· Martin Buber's Mosesp. 91
·8· Speech and Scripture: the Grammatical Thinking and Theology of Franz Rosenzweigp. 99
·9· The Teacher and the Hermeneutical Task: a Reinterpretation of Medieval Exegesisp. 112
·Conclusion·: The Notion of a Sacred Textp. 121
Notesp. 135
Indexp. 151
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