Textual reasonings : Jewish philosophy and text study at the end of the twentieth century /
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| Imprint: | Grand Rapids, Mich. : William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 2002. |
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| Description: | x, 310 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Radical traditions |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4842900 |
Table of Contents:
- Notes on the contributors
- Introductions
- Part I. Textual reasoning
- 1.. Textual reasoning in midrashic studies
- Anthological midrash and cultural paideia: The case of Songs Rabba 1.2
- 'The Kisses of His Mouth': Intimacy and Intermediacy as Performative Aspects of a Midrash Commentary
- Fishbane's commentary to Song of Songs Rabba as analytic textual reasoning
- 2.. Textual reasoning in biblical study
- Revelation revealed: The doubt of Torah
- Revelation revealed or reveiled? 'Jewish' and 'Christian' interpretation in late antiquity
- Response to 'Revelation revealed'
- 3.. Textual reasoning in talmudic studies: Law and semiotics
- Gold and silver: Philosophical Talmud
- Rabbis of gold and sages of silver: A response to 'Philosophical Talmud'
- Why Talmud: Renewing response
- 4.. Textual reasoning in talmudic studies: Law, history and change
- Talmudic scholarship as textual reasoning: Halivni's pragmatic historiography
- Response to 'Talmudic scholarship as textual reasoning'
- Part II. Reflections on the Process of Textual Reasoning
- 5.. Jewish reflections
- Textual reasoning and Jewish philosophy: The next phase of Jewish postmodernity?
- Textual reasoning, modernity and the limits of history
- Textual reasoning and cultural memory: A response to Jacob Meskin
- Exegesis, redemption and the maculate Torah
- Elu ve-elu: Textual difference and sublime judgement in Eruvin and Lyotard
- Seeing the doubting judge: Jewish ethics and the postmodern project
- Franz Rosenzweig, the 1920s and the [left angle bracket]email[right angle bracket] moment of textual reasoning
- 6.. Christian reflections
- Progress in textual reasoning: From Vatican II to the conference at Drew
- Responding to textual reasoning: What might Christians learn?
- Textual reasoning: A concluding reflection
- Epilogues
- Nancy Levene
- Peter Ochs
- Glossary
- Index of Names and Subjects
- Index of Texts
