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Rashi, Biblical Interpretation, and Latin Learning in Medieval Europe - A New Perspective on an Exegetical Revolution (Hardcover)
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Rashi, Biblical Interpretation, and Latin Learning in Medieval Europe - A New Perspective on an Exegetical Revolution (Hardcover)
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In this volume, Mordechai Z. Cohen explores the interpretive
methods of Rashi of Troyes (1040-1105), the most influential Jewish
Bible commentator of all time. By elucidating the 'plain sense'
(peshat) of Scripture, together with critically selected midrashic
interpretations, Rashi created an approach that was revolutionary
in the talmudically-oriented Ashkenazic milieu. Cohen
contextualizes Rashi's commentaries by examining influences from
other centers of Jewish learning in Muslim Spain and Byzantine
lands. He also opens new scholarly paths by comparing Rashi's
methods with trends in Latin learning reflected in the Psalms
commentary of his older contemporary, Saint Bruno the Carthusian
(1030-1101). Drawing upon the Latin tradition of enarratio poetarum
('interpreting the poets'), Bruno applied a grammatical
interpretive method and incorporated patristic commentary
selectively, a parallel that Cohen uses to illuminate Rashi's
exegetical values. Cohen thereby brings to light the novel literary
conceptions manifested by Rashi and his key students, Josef Qara
and Rashbam.
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