Jewish Concepts of Scripture

70 Benjamin D. Sommer Concrete Examples From among thousands of examples in midrashic literature that display these characterist ...

Concepts of Scriptural Language in Midrash 71 suggesting that Eldad and Medad spoke concerning Gog and Magog is not at all clear ...

72 Benjamin D. Sommer text that allows the supercharging of meaning to occur.) (3) Th e Bible is a hypertext, in which verses in ...

Concepts of Scriptural Language in Midrash 73 why does the text tell us that Joshua referred to Moses as “My lord” before asking ...

74 Benjamin D. Sommer in a strange manner: the letter nun (equivalent to our n) is written in su- perscript. Th is suggests the ...

Concepts of Scriptural Language in Midrash 75 formation in both texts is a matter of what is found in a few verses them- selves. ...

76 Benjamin D. Sommer should be read as one would read any literary texts, while some accept this notion but minimize it or atte ...

Concepts of Scriptural Language in Midrash 77 On these newer methods of interpretation, which entailed new ways of con- ceptual ...

78 Benjamin D. Sommer and dashes inserted into the old consonantal text of the Bible to represent vowels, but even today most He ...

Concepts of Scriptural Language in Midrash 79 assumption, typical of postbiblical Jewish texts, is at odds with the Bible’s own ...

80 Chapter 6 Concepts of Scripture among the Jews of the Medieval Islamic World Meira Polliack Th e medieval Islamic period brou ...

Concepts of Scripture among the Jews of the Medieval Islamic World 81 somewhat mollifi ed, as the Karaites gradually accepted th ...

82 Meira Polliack feature within this new literacy. A scholar’s accomplishments in logic and in linguistic control of a text ena ...

Concepts of Scripture among the Jews of the Medieval Islamic World 83 is refl ected in documentary sources such as letters and b ...

84 Meira Polliack nonfi ctional and exegetical writing, yet its content was idiosyncratic to the longstanding traditions of Jewi ...

Concepts of Scripture among the Jews of the Medieval Islamic World 85 on the Bible in antiquity, especially those by Philo and J ...

86 Meira Polliack on logical argumentations within a juridical or philosophical context, be- came an essential accomplishment of ...

Concepts of Scripture among the Jews of the Medieval Islamic World 87 discourse analysis.8 Th is led, in turn, to particular Kar ...

88 Meira Polliack Duran (1350 – 1414) and Don Isaac Abravanel (1437 – 1508), who represent the Renaissance period in Jewish exeg ...

Concepts of Scripture among the Jews of the Medieval Islamic World 89 charted relationship between the Bible and tradition was t ...