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- See Leo Strauss, “What is Liberal Education?,” in Liberalism Ancient and
Modern (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1968), 7 – 8. - For the phrase “fusion of horizons,” see Hans-Georg Gadamer, Truth and
Method (New York: Continuum, 1994), 302 – 7. - See Paul Ricoeur, Hermeneutics and the Human Sciences (Cambridge: Cam-
bridge University Press, 1981), 131 – 44, 182 – 93. - See Eliezer Schweid, “Martin Buber KePharshan Philosophi Shel HaMikra,”
Mekhkarei Yerushalayim leMachshevet Yisrael 2:4 (1983): 570 – 612. - Fishbane, Garments of Truth, 98.
- For this quote, and for a systematic and penetrating description of the
Sages’ midrashic project, see Gershom Scholem, “Revelation and Tradition as
Religious Categories in Judaism,” in Th e Messianic Idea in Judaism (New York:
Schocken Books, 1971), 282 – 303, especially 289. - Even the most sophisticated practitioners of “modern philosophical mid-
rash,” such as Levinas and Soloveitchik, read with these assumptions. See my ar-
ticle “Th e Educational Signifi cance of Modern Philosophical Midrash,” in Educa-
tional Deliberations: Studies in Education Dedicated to Seymour Fox (Jerusalem:
Keter, 2005), 93 – 118. - For the Bible as “capturing” events of dialogue, see Kepnes, Text as Th ou, 50.