Encountering Scriptures in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam — a new volume edited by Revel Dean Mordechai Cohen with Adele Berlin
Based on the Jerusalem research group directed by Revel Dean Cohen in 2010/11, the new volume Interpreting Scriptures in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam: Overlapping Inquiries, published by Cambridge University press, will appear in January 2016. This volume contains the following chapters, each published by a member of the Jerusalem research group:
Introduction Intersecting encounters with scriptures in three faiths
Mordechai Cohen
Part I Scriptural texts in changing contexts
1 The emergence of biblical interpretation in antiquity
James Kugel
2 Disclosing the mystery: hermeneutics of typology in Syriac exegesis
Sidney Griffith
3 “We have made it an Arabic Qur’an”: the permissibility of translating scripture in Islam in contrast with Judaism and Christianity
Meir Bar-Asher
4 The unmoved mover begins to move: literary and artistic renderings of the Christian Bible
Piero Boitani
5 Deconstructing the dual Torah: a Jewish response to the Muslim model of scripture
Meira Polliack
Part II Conceptions of the literal sense
6 The literal sense of Christian scripture: redefinition and revolution
Jon Whitman
7 Figuring the letter: making sense of “sensus litteralis” in late-medieval Christian Exegesis
Alastair Minnis
8 Conceptions of the literal sense (ḥaqīqa, ẓāhir) in Muslim interpretive thought
Robert Gleave
9 Emergence of the rule of peshat in Jewish Bible exegesis
Mordechai Cohen
Part III Rhetoric and the poetics of reading
10 Reading Virgil, reading David: poetry and commentary in the medieval school of Rheims
A. B. Kraebel
11 On the figurative (majāz) in Muslim interpretation and legal hermeneutics
Wolfhart Heinrichs
12 Words of eloquence: rhetoric and poetics in Jewish peshat exegesis in its Muslim and Christian contexts
Mordechai Cohen
13 Classical rhetoric and scriptural interpretation in the Latin West
Rita Copeland
14 Robert Lowth’s biblical poetics and romantic theory
Stephen Prickett
15 From scripture to literature: modern ways of reading the Bible
Adele Berlin
For more information about this publication, see http://yu.edu/revel/cohen-berlin-interpreting-scriptures/
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