Jewish constructions of the plain sense of scripture in their Christian and Muslim contexts /
First Statement of Responsibility
Mordechai Z. Cohen.
EDITION STATEMENT
Edition Statement
1st edition.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Philadelphia :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
University of Pennsylvania Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
[2020]
PROJECTED PUBLICATION DATE
Date
2001
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
pages cm.
SERIES
Series Title
Jewish culture and contexts
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
"This book looks at the peshat mode of reading the Bible (as opposed to the midrashic mode). The mode was present in the tenth to twelfth centuries. Peshat is the plain meaning of the text, the plain reading, the philological reading, the nonmystical reading. Our author explores how the peshat mode influenced Christian and Muslim schools of interpretation and vice versa; and how the peshat scholars broke from the midrashic mode of biblical interpretation. Spain, France, and the Middle East were important centers for the peshat mode"--
TITLE USED AS SUBJECT
Bible., Old Testament-- Commentaries
Bible., Old Testament-- Criticism, interpretation, etc.-- History-- To 1500.
Bible., Old Testament-- Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish-- History-- To 1500.
Bible., Old Testament-- Islamic interpretations-- History-- To 1500.