Scriptural Exegesis

Deborah A. Green and Laura S. Lieber: Introduction I: The ancient Near East and Hebrew Bible: The shape of the text 1: Jan Assmann: Myth as historia divina and historia sacra 2: Bernard M. Levinson: The Neo-Assyrian origins of the canon formula in Deuteronomy 13:1 3: Ernest Nicholson: Traditum and traditio: The case of Deuteronomy 17:14-20 4: Marc Zvi Brettler: The riddle of Psalm 111 5: William M. Schniedewind: Calling God names: An inner-biblical approach to the Tetragrammaton II: Intertestamental, postbiblical, and rabbinic literature: Reimagining the text 6: Israel Knohl: The Suffering Servant: From Isaiah to the Dead Sea Scrolls 7: Yehudah Liebes: The Work of the Chariot and the Work of Creation as mystical teachings in Philo of Alexandria 8: Joanna Weinberg: A rabbinic disquisition of Leviticus 26:3-13: A utopian vision between Jews and Christians 9: Marc Hirshman: Yearning for intimacy: Pesikta d'Rav Kahana and the temple 10: Moshe Halbertal: 'If the text had not been written, it could not be said' III: The medieval period: A new textual imagination 11: Kalman P. Bland: Cain, Abel, and brutism 12: Elliot R. Wolfson: 'Sage is preferable to prophet': Revisioning midrashic imagination 13: Moshe Idel: On angels and biblical exegesis in thirteenth-century Ashkenaz 14: Eli Yassif: 'Virgil in the Basket': Narrative as hermeneutics in Hebrew literature of the Middle Ages 15: Gilbert Dahan: Fabula: Concerning Christian exegesis in the Middle Ages 16: Bernard McGinn: Women reading the Song of Songs in the Christian tradition IV: The modern period: The human and divine in the text 17: Naftali Loewenthal: Finding the radiance in the text: A Habad hasidic interpretation of the Exodus 18: Paul Mendes-Flohr: Between sensual and heavenly love: Franz Rosenzweig's reading of the Song of Songs