Creating Fictional Worlds

Peshaṭ-Exegesis and Narrativity in Rashbam's Commentary on the Torah

AvHanna Liss

Inbunden, Engelska, 2011

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Beskrivning

R. Samuel ben Meir (b. 1085) wrote his Torah commentary at a point in time when the French masters of Bible collected their glossae, but he wrote it also at the point in time that we today consider to be the turning point in ‘lay literacy,’ when the Anglo-Norman aristocracy patronized the production of romances. In the first half of the 12th century, Northern France was a vibrant spot. It was an era in which composing, reading, and listening to narratives and stories intensified as a complex cultural phenomenon. This book presents the idea that Rashbam tried to compete with this new intellectual movement, claiming that the literary quality of the biblical texts was at least as good as that of the nascent courtly romances, or even on a par with one another.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2011-01-11
Mått:155 x 235 x 26 mm
Vikt:679 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Studies in Jewish History and Culture
Antal sidor:320
Förlag:Brill
ISBN:9789004194564

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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 für Jüdische 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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"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

Innehållsförteckning

TABLE OF CONTENTSIntroductionChapter One: The Northern French School of Biblical Exegesis: The Status Quaestionis in Modern ScholarshipChapter Two: Reevaluating Biblical Commentaries in Northern FranceChapter Three: R. Samuel ben Meïr (Rashbam): His Torah Commentary and Its TransmissionChapter Four: The Torah and the Art of NarrativeChapter Five: Rashbam’s Commentaries between רומנץ and ‘Romance'Chapter Six: Peshaṭ and HalakhahChapter 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