Garments of Torah

In this almost painfully beautiful book ... Fishbane ... explores the question of the kind of canon, privileged status, or Logos, the Torah actually has for the post-modern Western Jew. - Theology Today A book well worth reading. - The Jerusalem Post This wonderful volume documents the intellectual and spiritual odyssey of one of North America's foremost Jewish biblical scholars. - Shofar

• PrefaceI. THE HERMENEUTICS OF SCRIPTURE IN FORMATION1. Inner-Biblical Exegesis: Types and Strategies of Interpretation in Ancient Israel2. Extra-Biblical Exegesis: The Sense of Not Reading in Rabbinic Midrash3. The Garments of Torah-Or, to What May Scripture Be Compared?II. SCRIPTURAL HERMENEUTICS AND THE FORMS OF CULTURE4. Israel and the Mothers5. From Scribalism to Rabbinism: Perspectiveson the Emergence of Classical JudaismIII. HERMENEUTICS, SCRIPTURE, AND THE PRESENT HOUR6. The Biblical Dialogue of Martin Buber7. Martin Buber's Moses8. Speech and Scripture: The Grammatical Thinking and Theology of Franz Rosenzweig9. The Teacher and the Hermeneutical Task: A Reinterpretation of Medieval ExegesisConclusion: The Notion of a Sacred TextNotesIndex