The Garments of Torah: Essays in Biblical Hermeneutics"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 |
Contents
Types and Strategies of Interpretation | 3 |
The Sense of Not Reading in Rabbinic | 19 |
The Garments of TorahOr to What May Scripture | 33 |
Israel and the Mothers | 49 |
Perspectives on the Emergence | 64 |
III | 70 |
The Biblical Dialogue of Martin Buber | 81 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Garments of Torah: Essays in Biblical Hermeneutics The Garments of Torah Indiana Series in Biblical Literature |
| Author | Michael Fishbane |
| Publisher | Indiana University Press, 1992 |
| ISBN | 025311408X, 9780253114082 |
| Length | 156 pages |
| Subjects | › › Religion / Judaism / General |
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