328 Index
God (continued )
Buber and Rosenzweig’s view, 183 – 89, 190;
cleaving to, 146, 162, 167; conceptions of,
134, 157, 159 – 61; contact with through text,
163, 165; governance, 130, 132; knowledge
of, 108 – 10, 127 – 28; language of, 66; Mai-
monides’s view, 124 – 30, 133; moral sphere,
224, 226, 236; Nahmanides’s view, 143, 145;
names, 145, 147, 158 – 62, 166 – 70, 177n33, 270
Gog and Magog, 70 – 72
Goren, Shlomo, 303
Goshen-Gottstein, Moshe, 248
Gouri, Haim, 289
Govrin, Michal, 294
Graham, William A., 3
grammar. See linguistics and grammar
studies
Greenberg, Moshe, 247 – 66; on biblical lit-
erature/exegesis, 256 – 59; on canon and
canonization, 250; infl uence of Kaufmann,
247 – 48
Grimm, Jacob, 188
Grossman, David, 294 – 95
Guide of the Perplexed, 123 – 25, 128 – 35, 137n4,
137n6, 138n18, 140; Intro, 125, 129, 130,
137n6; I:1, 135; I:5, 136; I:16, 134; I:19, 134;
I:26, 124; I:45, 132; I:46, 136; I:54, 130, 133;
I:55, 127; I:59, 136; I:64, 135; III:25, 133; III:27,
129; III:32, 129, 131, 132; III:47, 135; III:51, 131
Habad (Lubavitch) Hasidism, 170
H.adīth literature, 89, 96
haft arot, 24 – 25. See also Prophets (Nevi ’im)
H.aggai, 38 – 39
ha-katuv (Scripture), 50 – 52
halakhah and halakhot, 42, 44, 88, 256 – 57.
See also legal rulings and traditions; extra-
scriptural traditions, 53; Maimonides’s
view, 130 – 31; Midrash and, 58, 60 – 61;
transmission of, 53 – 54
Halbertal, Moshe, 5
Halivni, David (Weiss), 212
Haran (person), 20 – 21
Haran (place), 21
Hareven, Shulamith, 292 – 93
HaShomer HaTzair, 300
Hasidism, 168 – 74
Hebrew language and grammar, 93 – 94, 142,
145, 250
Hebrew poetry, 282 – 84
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 217 – 18,
313 – 14
heikhalot literature and mystics, 157 – 61
Heimann, Shoshana, 292
hermeneutic markers, 49 – 50, 54 – 55, 58, 62n9
hermeneutics. See biblical exegesis
Herzog Institute, 271
higher criticism and critics. See biblical criti-
cism and critics
Hillel, 34 – 36
Hinduism, 4
Hirsch, Samson Raphael, 210 – 11, 214, 268
historical approaches/studies, 235
Hoff mann, David Zvi, 214 – 17, 225 – 26
Holcomb, Justin, 8 – 9
holiness, 135
“holistic interpretation,” 252
Holocaust, 285, 288, 302. See also binding of
Isaac
homilies, 28 – 29, 92 – 93, 106
Horowitz, Isaiah, 172 – 73
Hosea 8:12, 39
Hugh of St. Victor, 120n22
h.umash. See Pentateuch
human nature, 129, 131
human sacrifi ce. See binding of Isaac; na-
tional development and identity; national
sacrifi ce
humor in the Bible, 308
ibn Ezra, Abraham, 93, 141 – 42, 145, 151 – 53,
274
ibn Ezra, Moses, 87, 92
ibn Gabbai, Meir, 167
ibn Gikatilla, Moses, 87
idolatry, 128 – 31, 146, 237, 301, 304 – 7, 309. See
also monotheism/monotheistic worldview;
polytheism/polytheistic worldview
imitatio dei [mimic God’s governance], 130,
132
impurity. See purity versus impurity
“Isaac,” 293 – 94
Isaac (patriarch). See binding of Isaac
Isaac generation, 289 – 90, 292
Isaiah: 2:3, 119n4; 5:8 – 10, 109 – 10; 11:6, 128;
27:1, 143; 29:13, 89, 90; 40 – 66, 24 – 25; 40:25,
126 – 27; 40:26, 145; 42:21, 108; 49:14, 26;
51:12, 25; 54:1, 25; 54:5, 26; 54:11, 25, 26; 55:6,
104; 57:14 – 58:14, 23 – 24; 58:5 – 9, 23; 60:1, 25;
60:10, 25; 62:10, 25
Ishmael (rabbi), 50, 86, 158 – 59, 161, 175n2.
See also Mekhilta of Rabbi Ishmael (on
Exodus)
Islam and Islamists, 80 – 82, 93. See also Ara-
bic language and culture; Judaeo-Arabic
culture; Muhammad