Peshat and derash : plain and applied meaning in Rabbinic exegesis / David Weiss Halivni.

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Halivni, David

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 1991.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 249 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

0585339341
9780585339344
9780195115710
0195115716
9780195353938
0195353935

Other title:

Rabbinic exegesis

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Peshat and derash.DDC classification:

221.6/088296 20

LOC classification:

BS1186 .H28 1991eb

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Summary: This text offers an explanation in this text for the willingness of the early sages to attribute to scripture meanings not suggested in the text itself. The author posits a sharp discontinuity between what the sages considered a valid meaning and our own modern understanding of textual meaning.Summary: In this paperback reprint (which includes a new Afterword, responding to critics), noted Rabbinic scholar David Weiss Halivni offers a new explanation for the willingness of the early Sages to attribute to scripture meanings nowhere suggested in the text itself. He posits a sharp discontinuity between what the sages considered a valid meaning and our own modern understanding of textual meaning. He argues that the original meaning of the very work "peshat" was actually "context" rather than "literal" meaning, thus explaining the Rabbis' expressions of respect for peshat in the face of their evident unconcern for literal meaning in the text.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-230) and indexes.

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This text offers an explanation in this text for the willingness of the early sages to attribute to scripture meanings not suggested in the text itself. The author posits a sharp discontinuity between what the sages considered a valid meaning and our own modern understanding of textual meaning.

In this paperback reprint (which includes a new Afterword, responding to critics), noted Rabbinic scholar David Weiss Halivni offers a new explanation for the willingness of the early Sages to attribute to scripture meanings nowhere suggested in the text itself. He posits a sharp discontinuity between what the sages considered a valid meaning and our own modern understanding of textual meaning. He argues that the original meaning of the very work "peshat" was actually "context" rather than "literal" meaning, thus explaining the Rabbis' expressions of respect for peshat in the face of their evident unconcern for literal meaning in the text.

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