Textual Reasonings: Jewish Philosophy and Text Study at the End of the Twentieth Century
- Michigan William B.Eerdmans Publishing Co 2002
- 310p
includes index and biblioraphy
Part I Textual reasoning 1. Textual reasoning in midrashic studies 31 Michael Fishbane: Anthological midrash and cultural paideia: The case of Songs Rabba 1.2 32 Steven Fraade: The Kisses of His Mouth`: Intimacy and Intermediacy as Performative Aspects of a Midrash Commentary 52 Steven Kepnes: Fishbane`s commentary to Song of Songs Rabba as analytic textual reasoning 57 2. Textual reasoning in biblical study 67 Tikva Frymer-Kensky: Revelation revealed: The doubt of Torah 68 Virginia Burrus: Revelation revealed or reveiled? `Jewish` and `Christian` interpretation in late antiquity 76 Aryeh Cohen: Response to `Revelation revealed` 82 3. Textual reasoning in talmudic studies: Law and semiotics 89 Robert Gibbs and Peter Ochs: Gold and silver: Philosophical Talmud 90 Shaul Magid: Rabbis of gold and sages of silver: A response to `Philosophical Talmud` 103 Robert Gibbs: Why Talmud: Renewing response 113 4. Textual reasoning in talmudic studies: Law, history and change 119 Peter Ochs: Talmudic scholarship as textual reasoning: Halivni`s pragmatic historiography 120 David Halivni: Response to `Talmudic scholarship as textual reasoning` 144 Part II Reflections on the Process of Textual Reasoning 5. Jewish reflections Eugene Borowitz: Textual reasoning and Jewish philosophy: The next phase of Jewish postmodernity? Jacob Meskin: Textual reasoning, modernity and the limits of history Martin Kavka: Textual reasoning and cultural memory:A response to Jacob Meskin Randi Rashkover: Exegesis, redemption and the maculate Torah Zachary Braiterman: Elu ve-elu: Textual difference and sublime judgement in Eruvin and Lyotard Laurie Zoloth: Seeing the doubting judge: Jewish ethics and the postmodern project Michael Zank: Franz Rosenzweig, the 19205 and the moment of textual reasoning 6. Christian reflections George Lindbeck: Progress in textual reasoning: From Vatican II to the conference at Drew David Ford: Responding to textual reasoning: What might Christians learn? 25 Daniel Hardy: Textual reasoning: A concluding reflection Epilogues Nancy Levene Peter Ochs