Jewish Concepts of Scripture

110 R o b e rt A. H a r r i s [also] said about it: “No Scriptural passage ever escapes the hold of its context” (BT Shabbat 63a ...

Concepts of Scripture in the School of Rashi 111 detailing ideological underpinning for maintaining his position, he did articul ...

112 R o b e rt A. H a r r i s 12th-century exegetes invent “the reader” as we have come to understand the term. Before their tim ...

Concepts of Scripture in the School of Rashi 113 that rabbinic interpretation is the “essence” (Hebrew, iqqar) and bedrock of th ...

114 Robert A. Harris [in the study hall]. He admitted to me that if he had the time, he would have written new commentaries in a ...

Concepts of Scripture in the School of Rashi 115 northern French rabbinic exegetes. Let us begin with a portion of R. Yosef Kara ...

116 R o b e rt A. H a r r i s narration, interrupt the fl ow between the fi rst-person narration that begins in verse 1 and cont ...

Concepts of Scripture in the School of Rashi 117 author, and — for Rashi — it probably in some sense did refer to God). Th e sam ...

118 R o b e rt A. H a r r i s of the world. Brilliantly, Rashbam imagines even the circumstances that would lead Moses, as autho ...

Concepts of Scripture in the School of Rashi 119 Robert A. Harris, “Rashi’s Introductions to His Biblical Commentaries,” in Shai ...

120 R o b e rt A. H a r r i s [in Hebrew], esp. the fi rst two chapters; David Weiss Halivni, Peshat and De- rash: Plain and Ap ...

Concepts of Scripture in the School of Rashi 121 scholarship, see Gilbert Dahan, “Genres, Forms and Various Methods in Christian ...

122 R o b e rt A. H a r r i s in this chapter; see my article “Awareness of Biblical Redaction among Rabbinic Exegetes of Northe ...

123 Chapter 8 Concepts of Scripture in Maimonides James A. Diamond Th ere is virtually no facet of present-day Judaism that does ...

124 James A. Diamond thus aff ording him a seminal place in the history of religious thought in general. A lengthy and complex t ...

Concepts of Scripture in Maimonides 125 unifi ed Being that is the Maimonidean God. Th at Maimonidean deity al- lows for no comm ...

126 James A. Diamond identifi es (with this very citation) as mimicking a Solomonic methodology. Such persons distinguish themse ...

Concepts of Scripture in Maimonides 127 verse also acts as a pivotal scriptural underpinning for Maimonides’s nega- tive theolog ...

128 James A. Diamond the lamb [Isa. 11:6]) must be read fi guratively, a literary strategy that itself will be vindicated, for “ ...

Concepts of Scripture in Maimonides 129 are exchanged for a blend of laws and narratives better suited to preserve those princip ...