Before and After Muhammad The First Millennium Refocused

166 | CHAPTER 6 The exegetical process is measured compared to the energ y burst required for prophecy and the production of scr ...

EXEGETICAL CULTURES 2 | 167 remained valid throughout the millennium up to Justinian.^11 Cicero says schoolboys had it by heart. ...

168 | CHAPTER 6 the whole community,” had declared Cicero; and to that oracle, even or espe- cially when he ventured forth for a ...

EXEGETICAL CULTURES 2 | 169 when, less than a generation later, Constantine espoused Christianity. This provoked a double clash, ...

170 | CHAPTER 6 code and all legislation hitherto. The Laws, apparently compiled for school use shortly after the reign of Leo I ...

EXEGETICAL CULTURES 2 | 171 tinued to be a massively authoritative presence, symbolic of Christian Roman imperium in its absolut ...

172 | CHAPTER 6 Andarchius contrived to parlay his learning into employment at the court of King Sigibert of the Franks (561–75) ...

EXEGETICAL CULTURES 2 | 173 opted any principle of foreign law.”^47 Christian communities in the Caliph- ate continued to regula ...

174 | CHAPTER 6 neously in exegesis and legislation. No doubt their opinions were initially solicited informally like those of t ...

EXEGETICAL CULTURES 2 | 175 duced works which, once codified (rather earlier in the case of the rabbis), were massive, were inch ...

176 | CHAPTER 6 cousins of Palestine—were inclined to see the whole tradition as Torah, and themselves rather as its culmination ...

EXEGETICAL CULTURES 2 | 177 the earlier part of the First Millennium. A comparative approach is imposed by their partially share ...

178 | CHAPTER 6 knowledge.^68 In all this Boyarin sees a symptom of the impasse experienced in Greek Christianity too, as regard ...

EXEGETICAL CULTURES 2 | 179 from all over did indeed appeal on disputed questions of belief and prac- tice.^73 But just as resis ...

180 | CHAPTER 6 Bible may often yield a single correct meaning. This incensed the Rabbanites (as scholars call them when they ne ...

EXEGETICAL CULTURES 2 | 181 Millennium, Saadia and a few others^82 were nudging Judaism back toward the mainstream of Arabic int ...

182 | CHAPTER 6 field of reference. Its differences from these traditions, as well as its similari- ties, are instructive. Needl ...

EXEGETICAL CULTURES 2 | 183 duced by leading ecclesiastical figures, especially in their constant warfare on heresy.^91 (Here, a ...

184 | CHAPTER 6 exegesis of the Bible, then expounded in almost daily sermons as part of the Church’s liturgical cycle,^97 and i ...

EXEGETICAL CULTURES 2 | 185 In Origen we see a confluence of Christianity, philosophy, and Judaism with a spiritualizing, symbol ...