Scriptural Exegesis The Shapes of Culture and the Religious Imagination: Essays in Honour of Michael Fishbane

by Green, Deborah A.; Lieber, Laura S.

• ISBN13: 9780199206575
• ISBN10: 0199206570
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-04-25
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Scriptural Exegesis gathers voices from an international community of scholars to consider the many facets of the history of biblical interpretation and to question how exegesis shapes spiritual and cultural creativity. Divided into four broadly chronological sections that chart a variety ofapproaches from ancient to modern times, the essays examine texts and problems rooted in the ancient world yet still of concern today. Nineteen chapters incorporate the expertise of contributors from a diverse range of disciplines, including ancient religion, philosophy, mysticism, and folklore.Each embraces the challenge of explicating complex and often esoteric writings in light of Michael Fishbane's groundbreaking work in exegesis.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	p. x
List of Abbreviations	p. xii
Introduction	p. 1
The Ancient Near East and Hebrew Bible: The Shape of the Text
Myth as historia divina and historia sacra	p. 13
The Neo-Assyrian origins of the canon formula in Deuteronomy 13:1	p. 25
Traditum and tradition: the case of Deuteronomy 17:14-20	p. 46
The riddle of Psalm 111	p. 62
Calling God names: an inner-biblical approach to the Tetragrammaton	p. 74
Intertestamental, Postbiblical, and Rabbinic Literature: Reimagining the Text
The Suffering Servant: from Isaiah to the Dead Sea Scrolls	p. 89
The Work of the Chariot and the Work of Creation as mystical teachings in Philo of Alexandria	p. 105
A rabbinic disquisition of Leviticus 26:3-13: a utopian vision between Jews and Christians	p. 121
Yearning for intimacy: Pesikta d'Rav Kahana and the Temple	p. 135
'If the text had not been written, it could not be said'	p. 146
The Medieval Period: A New Textual Imagination
Cain, Abel, and brutism	p. 165
'Sage is preferable to prophet': revisioning midrashic imagination	p. 186
On angels and biblical exegesis in thirteenth-century Ashkenaz	p. 211
'Virgil in the Basket': narrative as hermeneutics in Hebrew literature of the Middle Ages	p. 245
Fabula, between $$ and $$: concerning Christian exegesis during the Middle Ages	p. 268
Women reading the Song of Songs in the Christian tradition	p. 281
The Modern Period: The Human and Divine in the Text
Finding the radiance in the text: a Habad hasidic interpretation of the Exodus	p. 299
Between sensual and heavenly love: Franz Rosenzweig's reading of the Song of Songs	p. 310
Index	p. 319
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