Language:
English
Year of publication:
2020
Titel der Quelle:
JSIJ - Jewish Studies; an Internet Journal
Angaben zur Quelle:
18 (2020) 42 pp.
Keywords:
Rashi, Criticism and interpretation
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Bible Criticism, Redaction
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Bible Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish Middle Ages, 600-1500
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History
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Bible. Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish Middle Ages, 600-1500
;
History
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Bible. Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish Middle Ages, 600-1500
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History
Abstract:
The literary sensibilities manifested in the northern French peshat school have long attracted attention. Recent studies explore the concept of the biblical narrator-editor in Rashbam, Eliezer of Beaugency, and other pashtanim—especially using derivations of the root s-d-r, which have been compared to the conception of the sadran in the Byzantine exegetical tradition. This study focuses on Rashi’s distinctive use of the term ha-meshorer (“the poet”) in his commentaries on Psalms and Song of Songs to denote a narrator or implied author who arranges—and “speaks” in—the biblical text. In addition to highlighting Rashi’s literary sensibilities and his related concern for seder ha-devarim (“sequence of the words”) within his peshat outlook, this study sheds new light on the conception of the biblical narrator-editor among later northern French pashtanim. Some have traced that conception to the Byzantine notion of the sadran; but, in fact, it may reflect an organic development in the northern French peshat school, inspired by Rashi’s literary notion of the biblical narrator. Rashi’s related, albeit minor, use of the term kotev ha-sefer (“writer of the book”) points to an emergent peshat investigation of biblical authorship and composition independent of midrashic sources, a trend that would be developed further in the twelfth-century northern French peshat school. These novel investigations by Rashi and his students find parallels in medieval Latin learning, where increasing attention was being paid to the literary forms and devices used by the human authors of Scripture, which were regarded as features of the literal sense.
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