The Garments of Torah: Essays in Biblical Hermeneutics"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 |
Contents
Types and Strategies of Interpretation | 3 |
The Sense of Not Reading in Rabbinic | 19 |
The Garments of TorahOr to What May Scripture | 33 |
Israel and the Mothers | 49 |
Perspectives on the Emergence | 64 |
III | 70 |
The Biblical Dialogue of Martin Buber | 81 |
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affirmation ancient Israel Asherah Ba'al BIAI biblical biblical text commandments concern concrete context covenant covenantal creation cultural Deut dialogical discussion divine voice essay eternal example exegesis exegetical Exod experience expression Ezra fact faith Franz Rosenzweig garment God's gods halakha hear Hebrew Bible hermeneutical historical holy human Ibid instruction interpretation Israelite Jeremiah Jerusalem Judaism Kabbala Kings kivyakhol language literal literary living Martin Buber Massoretic mattanah meaning midrashic Mishnah modern Moses mystery nature notion ontological oracle paradoxical passage phrase present priestly prooftext prophecies prophetic Psalm Qumran rabbinic reader reading reality religions religious remarkable revelation rhetorical ritual Rosenzweig sacrality sacred sages salvation sanctity Schocken Books Scholem scribal Scripture sense Septuagint Sinai Song speech spiritual Star Stern structure symbolic syncretism Talmud teacher teaching textual theological tion Torah Torah study tradition transcendence transformation truth verse vision words written Yahwism YHWH