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Subject(s)

• Bible Old Testament—Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish—History [Browse]
• Bialik, Hayyim Nahman 1873-1934 [Browse]
• Buber, Martin 1878-1965 [Browse]
• Rosenzweig, Franz 1886-1929 [Browse]
• Hasidism [Browse]
• Judaism [Browse]

Series

Forschungen zum Alten Testament ; 178. [More in this series]

Summary note

"Following his first wide-ranging collection on biblical text and exegetical culture, Michael Fishbane supplements his previous investigations with this second volume of collected writings. It includes close studies in medieval Jewish liturgical poetry, Jewish biblical exegesis (plain sense, allegorical sense, philosophical and mystical senses), and modern Jewish thought (traditional, especially Hasidic, literature as well as modern Jewish theology). Emphasizing the varieties of Jewish exegetical culture, and the interplay between culture, text and theology, each study is intended to be paradigmatic for a particular cultural or literary subject and includes many comparative examples, while placing special emphasis on hermeneutical and expository matters." -- Publisher, inside front flap of dust jacket.

Notes

Collection of previously published articles and essays. See "List of first publications", pages [607]-610.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

• Part I: Liturgical poetry (piyyut).
• Piyyut and midrash : between poetic invention and rabbinic convention
• Polysystem and piyyut : the poetics of a Yotzer by R. Meshullam b. Qalonymos
• From midrash to epic : the reshaping of rabbinic discourse in Jewish synagogue poetry (piyyut)
• Scripture, tradition, and theology : a passover Yotzer by R. Meir b. Yitzhak Shatz
• Cultural memory, spiritual critique, and piyyut
• Part II: Medieval Jewish exegesis.
• The Book of Zohar and exegetical spirituality
• Bible interpretation
• Allegory in Jewish thought, literature, and mentality
• The Bible in the Jewish mystical tradition
• Part III: Hasidism and hermeneutics.
• Transcendental consciousness and stillness in the mystical theology of R. Yehudah Aryeh Leib of Gur
• To jump for joy : the rites of dance according to R. Nahman of Bratzlav
• Spiritual pedagogy and rhetoric in a hasidic homily : the ma'or va-shemesh on parshat qedoshim
• Hermeneutics and the hasidic homily : a spiritual phenomenology of appropriation
• Monotheism and idolatry : theological challenges and considerations --
• Part IV: Modern Jewish thought.
• Martin Buber as an interpreter of the Bible
• Religious authenticity and spiritual resistance : Martin Buber and Biblical hermeneutics
• Justification through living : Martin Buber's third alternative
• The Biblical dialogue of Martin Buber
• Martin Buber's Moses
• Speech and scripture : the grammatical thinking and theology of Franz Rosenzweig
• "Seeing the voices" : enchaining the chains of tradition (reading Levinas reading Talmud)
• Covenantal theonomy and the question of autonomous selfhood : three spiritual types in sight of insight : reflections on a poem by Hayyim Nahman Bialik
• Mysticism and the ontology of language in the poetry of Hayyim Nahman Bialik
• Part V: Contemporary thought and theology.
• The notion of a sacred text
• The teacher and the hermeneutical task : a reinterpretation of medieval exegesis
• Hermeneutics
• Prayer
• The image of the human and the rights of the individual in Jewish tradition
• The image of God and the human ideal : reflections from the varieties of Judaism
• Pluralistic elements in the Jewish tradition
• Ethics and sacred attunement
• Plumblines in the vastness : measures without measure
• The journals of Gabriel Marcel and Abraham I. Kook as spiritual exercises
• Toward a Jewish theology of nature
• Aging in place : a spiritual fact of life
• What do American Jews believe? : a personal response
• Textuality and subsurface traditions
• Biblical hermeneutics and philosophical theology
• The hermeneutic self : a new-old pedagogical vision.

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ISBN

• 9783161520501
• 3161520505

OCLC

1451100176

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