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The Rule of Peshat: Jewish Constructions of the Plain Sense of Scripture and Their Christian and Muslim Contexts, 900-1270

By Mordechai Z. Cohen

Book information

Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Year
2020
ISBN
9780812297010
DOI
10.9783/9780812297010
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (5775121 bytes)
Pages
496\424
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-26 20:55:46

Description

Adopting a comparative approach that explores Jewish interactions with Muslim and Christian learning, Mordechai Z. Cohen sheds new light on the key turns in the vibrant medieval tradition of Jewish Bible interpretation, which yielded a conception of peshat exegesis that remains a gold standard in Jewish hermeneutics to this day.Adopting a comparative approach that explores Jewish interactions with Muslim and Christian learning, Mordechai Z. Cohen sheds new light on the key turns in the vibrant medieval tradition of Jewish Bible interpretation, which yielded a conception of peshat exegesis that remains a gold standard in Jewish hermeneutics to this day.

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