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Biblical interpretation is not simply study of the Bible's meaning. Historically, it has also served as a primary medium
for cultural and religious exchange between the great religious traditions of the West. Focusing on moments of
signal interest in the history of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic scriptural interpretation from the ancient, medieval, and
early modern periods, Jewish Biblical Interpretation and Cultural Exchange offers a unique comparative perspective.
Each of the essays treats its subject in relation to the larger cultural context and to other contemporary interpretative
traditions. Sources and authors examined in t . . . show more
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This rich volume of original essays emerged from a year of learning, conversation, and fellowship for some twenty scholars who worked at the University of
Pennsylvanias Center for Advanced Judaic Studies during the academic year 20012. All experts in the history and literature...
4. Lessons from Jeromes Jewish Teachers: Exegesis and Cultural Interaction in Late Antique Palestine
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Jerome, alone among non-Jewish writers of Late Antiquity whose works survive intact, makes abundant and well-informed reference to Jews, to Jewish custom, and
above all to Jewish biblical interpretation. He attributes this knowledge not to Jewish literary sources but to oral instruction...
6. Patriarchy, Primogeniture, and Polemic in the Exegetical Traditions of Judaism and Islam
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pp. 108-123
Parallels in method, rhetoric, and content between quranic exegesis and ancient Jewish biblical interpretation were known to medieval Jewish and Christian scholars
and have attracted the attention of modern scholarship since Abraham Geigers famous doctoral thesis submitted to...
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the fare he describes is a rich dish of chicken stuffed with ground meat, rice, and pine nuts.1 Delicious as it...
8. Early Islamic Exegesis as Legal Theory: How Quranic Wisdom (ikma) Became the Sunna of the Prophet
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Quranic exegesis appears among the very earliest intellectual tasksundertaken by Muslims, and so one is not surprised to find that com-mentaries on the Quran
survive among the oldest preserved Arabictexts. The spread of Islam brought both the need and the opportunityfor explication of the Quran; many persons genuinely
needed to know...
9. Interpreting Scripture in and through Liturgy: Exegesis of Mass Propers in the Middle Ages
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Before the era of inexpensive printing and widespread literacy, the ordinary persons encounter with Scripture was vicarious and quite selectivefor although personal
study of Scripture by cultural and religious elites was encouraged,1 the principal encounter with Scripture was in a...
11. Literal versus Carnal: George of Sienas Christian Reading of Jewish Exegesis
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pp. 327-337
Index of Persons
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Index of Sources
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