... shel mikra. This methodology was first applied to the interpretation of Scripture in the eastern Jewish communities under the rule of Islam, but it soon spread to all the centres of Jewish learning: Spain, Ashkenaz (northern France and Germany), Provence, Italy, Byzantium, and their branches...

...' rationalism sends out tendrils in a number of directions: it governs his exegesis of Scripture and of the non-legal — aggadic — side of rabbinic thought, creates hurdles that he has to negotiate in treating the halakhic — legal — side, leads him to a reconstruction of the early history of mankind, and shapes...

... account of creation and in foisting the theory on Scripture. It provides Gersonides' argument against Maimonides that the creation of the world is provable, and the world was not created ex nihilo. This chapter also details an indirect criticism of Maimonides' cosmological scepticism...

... scripture pacifically invade French in poetry by Habib Tengour (Algeria), Edmond Jabès (Egypt), Salah Stétié (Lebanon), Abdelwahab Meddeb (Tunisia), and Ryoko Sekiguchi (Japan). Pacifist Invasions deploys comparative side-by-side close readings of classical Arabic literature, Islamic...

... itself and even provides a witness to rabbinic topics before their midrashic redaction. It reviews the essence of Midrash and its all-inclusive definition that midrash springs from Scripture and is re-anchored in Scripture. Billerbeck Paul midrashic influence on on Christianity on New Testament...

... and anthropopathic terms occurring in Scripture must be taken in a spiritual sense. Third, it considers the reasons which brought him to his position that accidental attributes predicated of God must be interpreted as attributes of action, and essential attributes as negations or negations of privations. The chapter...

...This chapter explores the Vikuaḥ of Rabbi Yeḥiel of Paris, wherein he argued for the importance and authority of the Talmud. Rabbi Yeḥiel said he believes in all the laws contained in it, which were deduced by the rabbis from Scripture. It is called Talmud (teaching), because...