175722629X

Rashi, biblical interpretation, and Latin learning in medieval Europe : a new perspective on an exegetical revolution / Mordechai Z. Cohen (Yeshiva University, New York)

Englisch

Cambridge ; eNew York ; Port Melbourne ; New Delhi ; Singapore : Cambridge University Press, 2021

xiv, 307 Seiten

Rezensiert in: Reif, Stefan C. *1944-*: [Rezension von: Cohen, Mordechai Z., 1964-, Rashi, biblical interpretation, and Latin learning in medieval Europe: A New Perspective on an Exegetical Revolution], 2022

Rezensiert in: Harris, Robert A. *1955-*: [Rezension von: Cohen, Mordechai Z., The rule of peshat : Jewish Constructions of the Plain Sense of Scripture and Their Christian and Muslim Contexts, 900–1270; Cohen, Mordechai Z., 1964-, Rashi, biblical interpretation, and Latin learning in medieval Europe : A New Perspective on an Exegetical Revolution], 2023

Erscheint auch als: Online-Ausgabe- Cohen, Mordechai Z. *1964-*: Rashi, biblical interpretation, and Latin learning in Medieval Europe. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021. - 1 online resource (xiv, 307 pages)

Erscheint auch als: Online-Ausgabe- Cohen, Mordechai Z. *1964-*: Rashi, biblical interpretation, and Latin learning in medieval Europe. - New York : University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations, 2021. - 1 online resource (324 pages)

1-108-47029-7

978-1-108-47029-2 Hardback

Weitere Ausgaben: 978-1-108-56020-7 (andere physische Form) ebook

10.1017/9781108556538

*Rashi -- 1040-1105 ; Bruno -- Saint -- approximately 1030-1101 -- Expositio in psalmos ; Bible -- Old Testament -- Hermeneutics -- History

Klassifikation der Library of Congress: BL48-50

Dewey Dezimal-Klassifikation: 221.6092;

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