Concepts of Scripture among the Jews of the Medieval Islamic World 101Literature, and Postbiblical Judaism, Presented to Shalom M. Paul on the Occasion
of His Seventieth Birthday, vol. 2 (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2008), 891 – 916.
- See Gregor Schoeler, Th e Oral and the Written in Early Islam, trans. U.
Vagelpohl (London and New York: Routledge, 2006), 111 – 41. - See Hartwig Hirschfeld, Qirqisani Studies (London, 1918); Leon Nemoy, A
Karaite Anthology (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1952), 60 – 68. - Th is kind of distinction is reminiscent of the modern diff erentiation be-
tween the functions of “seeing” and “telling” in narrative theory. See Hirschfeld,
Qirqisani Studies, 52. - See Stock, Implications of Literacy, 4. See further exemplifi cation of the in-
terpretation of the Bible as history in Meira Polliack, “Historicizing Prophetic Lit-
erature: Yefet’s Commentary on Hosea and Its Relationship to al-Qūmisī’s Pitron,”
in J. L. Kraemer and Michael G. Wechsler, eds., Pesher Nahum, Texts and Studies
in Jewish History and Literature from Antiquity through the Middle Ages, Pre-
sented to Norman (Nahum) Golb (Chicago: Oriental Institiute, Chicago Univer-
sity, 2011), 149 – 84. - See Daniel Lasker, “Karaism in Twelft h-Century Spain,” Journal of Jewish
Th ought and Philosophy 1 (1992): 179 – 95.