Textual Reasonings : Jewish Philosophy and Text Study at the End of the Twentieth Century

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ISBN: 9780802839978 | 0802839975
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Copyright: 1/1/2003

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"Textual Reasoning" is the name that a group of contemporary Jewish thinkers has given to its overlapping practices of Jewish philosophy and theology. This volume represents the most public expression to date of the shared work, over a period of twelve years, of this society of "textual reasoners."

Notes on the contributors	p. vii
Introductions	p. 1
Textual reasoning
Textual reasoning in midrashic studies	p. 31
Anthological midrash and cultural paideia: The case of Songs Rabba 1.2	p. 32
'The Kisses of His Mouth': Intimacy and Intermediacy as Performative Aspects of a Midrash Commentary	p. 52
Fishbane's commentary to Song of Songs Rabba as analytic textual reasoning	p. 57
Textual reasoning in biblical study	p. 67
Revelation revealed: The doubt of Torah	p. 68
Revelation revealed or reveiled? 'Jewish' and 'Christian' interpretation in late antiquity	p. 76
Response to 'Revelation revealed'	p. 82
Textual reasoning in talmudic studies: Law and semiotics	p. 89
Gold and silver: Philosophical Talmud	p. 90
Rabbis of gold and sages of silver: A response to 'Philosophical Talmud'	p. 103
Why Talmud: Renewing response	p. 113
Textual reasoning in talmudic studies: Law, history and change	p. 119
Talmudic scholarship as textual reasoning: Halivni's pragmatic historiography	p. 120
Response to 'Talmudic scholarship as textual reasoning'	p. 144
Reflections on the Process of Textual Reasoning
Jewish reflections	p. 155
Textual reasoning and Jewish philosophy: The next phase of Jewish postmodernity?	p. 156
Textual reasoning, modernity and the limits of history	p. 162
Textual reasoning and cultural memory: A response to Jacob Meskin	p. 175
Exegesis, redemption and the maculate Torah	p. 191
Elu ve-elu: Textual difference and sublime judgement in Eruvin and Lyotard	p. 206
Seeing the doubting judge: Jewish ethics and the postmodern project	p. 214
Franz Rosenzweig, the 1920s and the [left angle bracket]email[right angle bracket] moment of textual reasoning	p. 229
Christian reflections	p. 251
Progress in textual reasoning: From Vatican II to the conference at Drew	p. 252
Responding to textual reasoning: What might Christians learn?	p. 259
Textual reasoning: A concluding reflection	p. 269
Epilogues	p. 277
Nancy Levene	p. 278
Peter Ochs	p. 289
Glossary	p. 303
Index of Names and Subjects	p. 304
Index of Texts	p. 308
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Textual Reasonings : Jewish Philosophy and Text Study at the End of the Twentieth Century

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