Jewish Concepts of Scripture

50 Azzan Yadin-Israel Th e question “Why was this stated?” is linked with the repetition of the phrase “the second lamb” in Numb ...

Concepts of Scripture in the Schools of Rabbi Akiva and Rabbi Ishmael 51 But Scripture’s active participation in interpretation ...

52 Azzan Yadin-Israel model. Th is function is most evident in passages that employ the phrase “Just as Scripture [ha-katuv] spe ...

Concepts of Scripture in the Schools of Rabbi Akiva and Rabbi Ishmael 53 Ishmael seems not to be the disciple of any expert in O ...

54 Azzan Yadin-Israel of impure locust is pure” (Shemini pereq 5.10; Weiss, 51a; TK, 212); “Th is is the testimony Hezekiah the ...

Concepts of Scripture in the Schools of Rabbi Akiva and Rabbi Ishmael 55 one who slaughters the purifi cation off ering in the s ...

56 Azzan Yadin-Israel inherits, or receives as a present? [Scripture] teaches saying ’ish ’ish. (Ah.arei Mot pereq 11.1; Weiss, ...

Concepts of Scripture in the Schools of Rabbi Akiva and Rabbi Ishmael 57 the Temple purity on its own and the purity of the Temp ...

58 Azzan Yadin-Israel Th e Sifra here points to a typical hermeneutic marker, namely, the apparent redundancy of describing the ...

Concepts of Scripture in the Schools of Rabbi Akiva and Rabbi Ishmael 59 “Who will remove the earth from your eyes, Rabbi Yohana ...

60 Azzan Yadin-Israel a way that accords with received extrascriptural tradition. Note further that Rabbi Tarfon’s resistance is ...

Concepts of Scripture in the Schools of Rabbi Akiva and Rabbi Ishmael 61 type. Th e ideal scholar to produce a constitutive midr ...

62 Azzan Yadin-Israel Indiana University Press, 1994), 27. It is no coincidence that this book, the most forceful and sophistica ...

Concepts of Scripture in the Schools of Rabbi Akiva and Rabbi Ishmael 63 Menachem Fisch, Rational Rabbis: Science and Talmudic ...

64 Chapter 5 Concepts of Scriptural Language in Midrash Benjamin D. Sommer Virtually all Jewish conceptions of scripture since l ...

Concepts of Scriptural Language in Midrash 65 A midrash (plural, midrashim) can be a particular interpretation of a passage or ...

66 Benjamin D. Sommer scripture were becoming common among Jews throughout the world, and the era in which specifi cally midrash ...

Concepts of Scriptural Language in Midrash 67 not especially interested in larger literary units, such as a whole poem or a comp ...

68 Benjamin D. Sommer is, tellingly, from Genesis 39. For the rabbis, any verse has signifi cant con- nections to other verses t ...

Concepts of Scriptural Language in Midrash 69 limit the interpreter, because such thinking would point the interpreter toward su ...