Creating Fictional Worlds: Peshat-Exegesis and Narrativity in Rashbam's Commentary on the Torah

Author:   Hanna Liss
Publisher:   Brill
Volume:   25
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9789004194564


Pages:   320
Publication Date:   11 January 2011
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Hanna Liss
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   25
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.679kg
ISBN:  

9789004194564


ISBN 10:   9004194568
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   11 January 2011
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
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Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Chapter One: The Northern French School of Biblical Exegesis: The Status Quaestionis in Modern Scholarship Chapter Two: Reevaluating Biblical Commentaries in Northern France Chapter Three: R. Samuel ben Meir (Rashbam): His Torah Commentary and Its Transmission Chapter Four: The Torah and the Art of Narrative Chapter Five: Rashbam's Commentaries between and 'Romance' Chapter Six: Peshat and Halakhah Chapter Seven: The Old French Glosses and Rashbam's Exegesis 'According to the Ways of the World' Conclusion: Rabbis, Knights, and the Excitement of Medieval Adolescence

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An important contribution to the study of medieval Jewish exegesis that should be considered by anyone interested in the peshat tradition of Northern France. Pinchas Roth, graduate student in the Talmud Department at Hebrew University, Association of Jewish Libraries, September/October 2011, Volume 1, No. 3. Jerusalem


An important contribution to the study of medieval Jewish exegesis that should be considered by anyone interested in the peshat tradition of Northern France. Pinchas Roth, graduate student in the Talmud Department at Hebrew University, Association of Jewish Libraries, September/October 2011, Volume 1, No. 3. Jerusalem


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Hanna Liss, Ph.D. (1995) in Jewish Studies, University of Berlin, is Professor of Bible and Jewish Exegesis at the Hochschule fur Judische Studien, Heidelberg, Germany. She has published extensively on medieval Jewish Exegesis and Ashkenazic pietism including Raschi und sein Erbe (Winter, 2007) and El'asar ben Yehuda von Worms, Hilkhot ha-Kavod (Mohr, 1997)

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