Jewish Concepts of Scripture

90 Meira Polliack explained the Jews’ extended exile, loss of sovereignty, and humiliation among the nations. Th e following exc ...

Concepts of Scripture among the Jews of the Medieval Islamic World 91 same time not fully committed to new ones. Th e Karaites’ ...

92 Meira Polliack a self-referential text, Karaite exegetes disassociated their exegesis from preexisting sanctifi ed midrashic, ...

Concepts of Scripture among the Jews of the Medieval Islamic World 93 Hebrew term peshat, focusing on the plain meaning of the t ...

94 Meira Polliack Th e Karaite tradition of Hebrew grammar originated in centers of gram- matical study in the East during the l ...

Concepts of Scripture among the Jews of the Medieval Islamic World 95 it to discourse analysis. Yefet developed the innovative K ...

96 Meira Polliack be concerned with the exercise of control over the fl ow, positioning, and gapping of the data within the narr ...

Concepts of Scripture among the Jews of the Medieval Islamic World 97 the connection between the biblical text and the “real” wo ...

98 Meira Polliack taking place (for instance, the time of Abraham). Qirqisānī, like Yefet, takes pains to distinguish between th ...

Concepts of Scripture among the Jews of the Medieval Islamic World 99 were also kept alive through the Hebrew translation enterp ...

100 Meira Polliack Oxford University Press, 2001); Uriel Simon, Four Approaches to the Book of Psalms: From Saadiah Gaon to Abra ...

Concepts of Scripture among the Jews of the Medieval Islamic World 101 Literature, and Postbiblical Judaism, Presented to Shalom ...

102 Chapter 7 Concepts of Scripture in the School of Rashi Robert A. Harris In considering the defi nition of a “Jewish concepti ...

Concepts of Scripture in the School of Rashi 103 Th is opening comment addresses the very essence of Torah.2 Contrary to the Chr ...

104 Robert A. Harris root of this word is derash; in biblical Hebrew, this root generally means “to seek” or “to demand” or “to ...

Concepts of Scripture in the School of Rashi 105 tural supremacy of the Koran and the Arabic language — which themselves eventua ...

106 R o b e rt A. H a r r i s as well that each of the exegetes worked within the framework of his own, unique method and that t ...

Concepts of Scripture in the School of Rashi 107 distinctions to be made between the hermeneutics of ancient midrashim and early ...

108 R o b e rt A. H a r r i s for the Torah was given completely and written completely (Psalm 19:8), and lacks nothing. Whereas ...

Concepts of Scripture in the School of Rashi 109 am understanding, Mine is strength (Proverbs 8:14). [Selfl ess Torah study] gra ...