Author: Alexander Samely
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
ISBN: 9783161456435
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
The Interpretation of Speech in the Pentateuch Targums
Author: Alexander Samely
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
ISBN: 9783161456435
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
ISBN: 9783161456435
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Michael Klein on the Targums
Author: Michael L. Klein
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004202951
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
During his life, Michael Klein played an important role in helping establish the modern study of the Targums. This collection brings together some of his writings on the Cairo Geniza Targum fragments, targumic translation technique, and Targum Neofiti.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004202951
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
During his life, Michael Klein played an important role in helping establish the modern study of the Targums. This collection brings together some of his writings on the Cairo Geniza Targum fragments, targumic translation technique, and Targum Neofiti.
Rabbinic Interpretation of Scripture in the Mishnah
Author: Alexander Samely
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 9780198270317
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
This volume offers a systematic and detailed description of early rabbinic hermeneutics as it can be reconstructed from the Mishnah (third century c.e.). Samely 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.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 9780198270317
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
This volume offers a systematic and detailed description of early rabbinic hermeneutics as it can be reconstructed from the Mishnah (third century c.e.). Samely 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.
A Targumist Interprets the Torah: Contradictions and Coherence in Targum Pseudo-Jonathan
Author: Iosif J Zhakevich
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004503838
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
This book conducts a study of contradictions and coherence in Targum Pseudo-Jonathan and suggests that the alleged contradictions are ultimately given to resolution, once the greater context of biblical and Jewish tradition is taken into consideration.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004503838
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
This book conducts a study of contradictions and coherence in Targum Pseudo-Jonathan and suggests that the alleged contradictions are ultimately given to resolution, once the greater context of biblical and Jewish tradition is taken into consideration.
The Targums
Author: Paul V.M. Flesher
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900421769X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
This remarkable survey introduces critical knowledge and insights that have emerged over the past forty years, including targum manuscripts discovered this century and targums known in Aramaic but only recently translated into English. Prolific scholars Flesher and Chilton guide readers in understanding the development of the targums; their relationship to the Hebrew Bible; their dates, language, and place in the history of Christianity and Judaism; and their theologies and methods of interpretation.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900421769X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
This remarkable survey introduces critical knowledge and insights that have emerged over the past forty years, including targum manuscripts discovered this century and targums known in Aramaic but only recently translated into English. Prolific scholars Flesher and Chilton guide readers in understanding the development of the targums; their relationship to the Hebrew Bible; their dates, language, and place in the history of Christianity and Judaism; and their theologies and methods of interpretation.
Historical Dictionary of Judaism
Author: Norman Solomon
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 144224142X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 641
Book Description
This third edition of Historical Dictionary of Judaism covers the history of the Jewish religion, ranging from its biblical roots, through its formulation in the era of the Talmud, to the present day. This collection covers the development of Judaism in the medieval Christian and Islamic worlds, its varied responses to Enlightenment and modernity, the creation of new philosophies of Judaism in the wake of the Holocaust, and the establishment of the State of Israel, and contemporary issues such as feminism, secularism, and the ethics of war and medicine. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 800 cross-referenced entries on important personalities in Jewish religious history, including biblical personalities with an emphasis on how they are understood in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic tradition. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Judaism.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 144224142X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 641
Book Description
This third edition of Historical Dictionary of Judaism covers the history of the Jewish religion, ranging from its biblical roots, through its formulation in the era of the Talmud, to the present day. This collection covers the development of Judaism in the medieval Christian and Islamic worlds, its varied responses to Enlightenment and modernity, the creation of new philosophies of Judaism in the wake of the Holocaust, and the establishment of the State of Israel, and contemporary issues such as feminism, secularism, and the ethics of war and medicine. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 800 cross-referenced entries on important personalities in Jewish religious history, including biblical personalities with an emphasis on how they are understood in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic tradition. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Judaism.
The Messenger of the Lord in Early Jewish Interpretations of Genesis
Author: Camilla Hélena von Heijne
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110226855
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
The focus of this book is on early Jewish interpretations of the ambiguous relationship between God and ‛the angel of the Lord/God’ in texts like Genesis 16, 22 and 31. Genesis 32 is included since it exhibits the same ambiguity and constitutes an inseparable part of the Jacob saga. The study is set in the wider context of the development of angelology and concepts of God in various forms of early Judaism. When identifying patterns of interpretation in Jewish texts, their chronological setting is less important than the nature of the biblical source texts. For example, a common pattern is the avoidance of anthropomorphism. In Genesis ‛the angel of the Lord’ generally seems to be a kind of impersonal extension of God, while later Jewish writings are characterized by a more individualized angelology, but the ambivalence between God and his angel remains in many interpretations. In Philo's works and Wisdom of Solomon, the ‛Logos’ and ‛Lady Wisdom’ respectively have assumed the role of the biblical ‛angel of the Lord’. Although the angelology of Second Temple Judaism had developed in the direction of seeing angels as distinct personalities, Judaism still had room for the idea of divine hypostases.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110226855
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
The focus of this book is on early Jewish interpretations of the ambiguous relationship between God and ‛the angel of the Lord/God’ in texts like Genesis 16, 22 and 31. Genesis 32 is included since it exhibits the same ambiguity and constitutes an inseparable part of the Jacob saga. The study is set in the wider context of the development of angelology and concepts of God in various forms of early Judaism. When identifying patterns of interpretation in Jewish texts, their chronological setting is less important than the nature of the biblical source texts. For example, a common pattern is the avoidance of anthropomorphism. In Genesis ‛the angel of the Lord’ generally seems to be a kind of impersonal extension of God, while later Jewish writings are characterized by a more individualized angelology, but the ambivalence between God and his angel remains in many interpretations. In Philo's works and Wisdom of Solomon, the ‛Logos’ and ‛Lady Wisdom’ respectively have assumed the role of the biblical ‛angel of the Lord’. Although the angelology of Second Temple Judaism had developed in the direction of seeing angels as distinct personalities, Judaism still had room for the idea of divine hypostases.
The A to Z of Judaism
Author: Norman Solomon
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0810855550
Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
"This book includes a chronology and an introduction that presents an overview of all aspects of Judaism. Numerous cross-referenced dictionary entries detail important people, writings, institutions, concepts, Hebrew words, philosophy, theology, and religious law, and an extensive bibliography provides access for further study."--Jacket.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0810855550
Category : Jews
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
"This book includes a chronology and an introduction that presents an overview of all aspects of Judaism. Numerous cross-referenced dictionary entries detail important people, writings, institutions, concepts, Hebrew words, philosophy, theology, and religious law, and an extensive bibliography provides access for further study."--Jacket.
Interpreting the Psalms
Author: Philip S. Johnston
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 0830884114
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
Editors David Firth and Philip Johnston help academic readers understand current approaches and issues in study of the Psalms, while also giving them a deeper appreciation for these poetic texts.
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 0830884114
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
Editors David Firth and Philip Johnston help academic readers understand current approaches and issues in study of the Psalms, while also giving them a deeper appreciation for these poetic texts.
Jewish Education from Antiquity to the Middle Ages
Author: George J. Brooke
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004347763
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 473
Book Description
In Jewish Education from Antiquity to the Middle Ages fifteen scholars offer specialist studies on Jewish education from the areas of their expertise. This tightly themed volume in honour of Philip S. Alexander has some essays that look at individual manuscripts, some that consider larger literary corpora, and some that are more thematically organised. Jewish education has been addressed largely as a matter of the study house, the bet midrash. Here a richer range of texts and themes discloses a wide variety of activity in several spheres of Jewish life. In addition, some notable non-Jewish sources provide a wider context for the discourse than is often the case.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004347763
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 473
Book Description
In Jewish Education from Antiquity to the Middle Ages fifteen scholars offer specialist studies on Jewish education from the areas of their expertise. This tightly themed volume in honour of Philip S. Alexander has some essays that look at individual manuscripts, some that consider larger literary corpora, and some that are more thematically organised. Jewish education has been addressed largely as a matter of the study house, the bet midrash. Here a richer range of texts and themes discloses a wide variety of activity in several spheres of Jewish life. In addition, some notable non-Jewish sources provide a wider context for the discourse than is often the case.