The Garments of Torah
by Fishbane, MichaelFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1992-09-01
Publisher(s): Indiana Univ Pr
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Summary
"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
| Preface | p. ix |
| ·1· Inner-Biblical Exegesis: Types and Strategies of Interpretation in Ancient Israel | p. 3 |
| ·2· Extra-Biblical Exegesis: the Sense of Not Reading in Rabbinic Midrash | p. 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 Judaism | p. 64 |
| ·6· The Biblical Dialogue of Martin Buber | p. 81 |
| ·7· Martin Buber's Moses | p. 91 |
| ·8· Speech and Scripture: the Grammatical Thinking and Theology of Franz Rosenzweig | p. 99 |
| ·9· The Teacher and the Hermeneutical Task: a Reinterpretation of Medieval Exegesis | p. 112 |
| ·Conclusion·: The Notion of a Sacred Text | p. 121 |
| Notes | p. 135 |
| Index | p. 151 |
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