Rashi, biblical interpretation, and Latin learning in Medieval Europe: a new perspective on an exegetical revolution

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...

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Main Author: Cohen, Mordechai Z. 1964- (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2021
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Reviews:[Rezension von: Cohen, Mordechai Z., 1964-, Rashi, biblical interpretation, and Latin learning in medieval Europe: A New Perspective on an Exegetical Revolution] (2022) (Reif, Stefan C., 1944 -)
[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) (Harris, Robert A., 1955 -)
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Shelomoh ben Yitsḥaḳ 1040-1105 / Reception / Bruno The Carthusian 1030-1101 / Psalms / Commentary
Further subjects:B Bruno Saint Expositio in psalmos approximately 1030-1101
B Bruno ; Saint ; approximately 1030-1101 ; Expositio in psalmos
B Rashi (1040-1105)
B Bible. Old Testament. Hermeneutics History
B Rashi ; 1040-1105
B Bible ; Old Testament ; Hermeneutics ; History
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Summary: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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ISBN:1108556531
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/9781108556538