Scriptural exegesis : the shapes of culture and the religious imagination

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Introduction I: THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND HEBREW BIBLE: THE SHAPE OF THE TEXT 1. Myth as historia divina and historia sacra 2. The Neo-Assyrian origins of the canon formula in Deuteronomy 13:1 3. Traditum and traditio: The case of Deuteronomy 17:14-20 4. The riddle of Psalm 111 5. Calling God names: An inner-biblical approach to the Tetragrammaton II: INTERTESTAMENTAL, POSTBIBLICAL, AND RABBINIC LITERATURE: REIMAGINING THE TEXT 6. The Suffering Servant: From Isaiah to the Dead Sea Scrolls 7. The Work of the Chariot and the Work of Creation as mystical teachings in Philo of Alexandria 8. A rabbinic disquisition of Leviticus 26:3-13: A utopian vision between Jews and Christians 9. Yearning for intimacy: Pesikta d'Rav Kahana and the temple 10. 'If the text had not been written, it could not be said' III: THE MEDIEVAL PERIOD: A NEW TEXTUAL IMAGINATION 11. Cain, Abel, and brutism 12. 'Sage is preferable to prophet': Revisioning midrashic imagination 13. On angels and biblical exegesis in thirteenth-century Ashkenaz 14. 'Virgil in the Basket': Narrative as hermeneutics in Hebrew literature of the Middle Ages 15. Fabula: Concerning Christian exegesis in the Middle Ages 16. Women reading the Song of Songs in the Christian tradition IV: THE MODERN PERIOD: THE HUMAN AND DIVINE IN THE TEXT 17. Finding the radiance in the text: A Habad hasidic interpretation of the Exodus 18. Between sensual and heavenly love: Franz Rosenzweig's reading of the Song of Songs

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