Subject: Religion Book Title: Biblical Interpretation in Ancient Israel
Biblical Interpretation in Ancient Israel
Fishbane, Michael,
Nathan Cummings Professor of Jewish Studies,
University of Chicago Divinity School
Print publication date: 1988
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-826699-0
doi:10.1093/0198266995.001.0001
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-826699-0
doi:10.1093/0198266995.001.0001
Abstract:
The interpretation of authoritative texts is a characteristic feature of the classical religions. In this regard, the Hebrew Bible is a fundamental source for religious exegesis in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. This book investigates, in a comprehensive manner, the origins of such Scriptural interpretation within the Hebrew Bible itself. Of crucial importance is the development of a method, in order to isolate and analyse the exegetical features found (explicitly and implicitly) within this text. The terms traditum (or body of tradition) and traditio (or transmission) are introduced, and the hermeneutical dialectic between a corpus of authoritative materials and its ongoing reception is spelt out.
Keywords: canon, commentary, inner-biblical interpretation, revelation, traditio, tradition, tradition-history, traditum
Keywords: canon, commentary, inner-biblical interpretation, revelation, traditio, tradition, tradition-history, traditum
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
1. Introduction. The Role of Scribes in the Transmission of Biblical Literature
2. Lexical and Explicative Comments
3. Pious Revisions and Theological Addenda
4. Conclusions
5. Introduction. The Scope and Content of Biblical Law as a Factor in the Emergence of Exegesis
6. Legal Exegesis With Verbatim, Paraphrastic, or Pseudocitations in Historical Sources
7. Legal Exegesis With Covert Citations in Historical Sources
8. Legal Exegesis and Explication in the Pentateuchal Legal Corpora
9. Conclusions
10. Introduction. Preliminary Considerations
11. Aggadic Exegesis of Legal Traditions in the Prophetic Literature
12. Aggadic Transformations of Non-Legal Pentateuchal Traditions
13. Aggadic Exegesis in the Historiographical Literature
14. Conclusions
15. Introduction. The Shape and Nature of Mantological Material as Factors for Exegesis
16. The Mantological Exegesis of Dreams, Visions, and Omens
17. The Mantological Exegesis of Oracles
18. Generic Transformations
19. Conclusions
20. Epilogue
21. Addenda
Bibliography
Index
doi:10.1093/0198266995.001.0001
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