The Idea of Biblical Interpretation: Essays in Honor of James L. KugelJames L. Kugel, Judith H. Newman, Judith Hood Newman The essays in this Festschrift honor James L. Kugel for his contribution to the field of biblical studies, in particular early biblical interpretation. The essays are organized in three roughly chronological categories. The first group treats some part of the Tanakh, ranging from the creation and Abraham stories of Genesis to the evolving conception of sacred writing in the prophetic literature. The second set of essays focuses chiefly on the literature of Second Temple Judaism, including Qumran and extra-biblical literature. The last group concerns the scriptural imagination at work in rabbinic literature, in Milton's Paradise Lost, in the anti-semitic work of Gerhard Kittel, up to the present in a treatment of Levinas and the Talmud. |
Contents
The Conversion of Abraham to Judaism Christianity | 3 |
The Alleged Hidden Light | 41 |
Iterated Quotation Formulae in Talmudic Narrative | 55 |
Deuteronomy 910 45 | 74 |
Genre Ambiguity and Theological | 95 |
13 or The A is so and Whats More | 125 |
The Symbolic Significance of Writing in Ancient Judaism | 139 |
Qumran ESotericism | 177 |
The Earliest Interpretations of Adam | 293 |
The Democratization of Kingship in Wisdom of Solomon | 309 |
Two Powers in Heaven or The Making of a Heresy | 331 |
Exegesis | 371 |
Can Hermeneutics History | 399 |
The Alphabet of Ben Sira and the Early History of Parody | 423 |
Does Rashis Torah Commentary Respond to Christianity? | 449 |
Peshat in the Medieval | 473 |
The Contribution of the Qumran Discoveries to the History | 215 |
Myth History and Mystery in the Copper Scroll | 239 |
The Concept of Covenant in the Qumran Scrolls | 257 |
Open and Closed Eyes in the Animal Apocalypse | 279 |
The Hermeneutical Significance of Emmanuel Levinass | 545 |
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| Title | The Idea of Biblical Interpretation: Essays in Honor of James L. Kugel Volume 83 of Journal for the study of Judaism / Supplements Volume 83 of Journal for the study of judaism: Supplements Volume 83 of Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism Series |
| Editors | James L. Kugel, Judith H. Newman, Judith Hood Newman |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | BRILL, 2004 |
| ISBN | 9004136304, 9789004136304 |
| Length | 604 pages |
| Subjects | › › Architecture / Interior Design / General Literary Criticism / Jewish Religion / Antiquities & Archaeology Religion / Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / Old Testament Religion / General Religion / Judaism / History |
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