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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12202/8471| Title: | The Torah Comments of Yeḥiel of Paris: Mediating between Peshat and Derash |
| Authors: | Kanarfogel, Ephraim Goodblatt, Chanita Kreisel, Howard 0000-0002-7539-7802 |
| Keywords: | Jewish studies medieval history rabbinics medieval Jewish philosophy |
| Issue Date: | 2021 |
| Publisher: | Beer Sheva : Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Press |
| Citation: | Kanarfogel, E. (2021). The Torah Comments of Yeḥiel of Paris: Mediating between Peshat and Derash. In Chanita Goodblatt and Howard Kreisel (eds.), "Reading the Bible in the pre-modern world : interpretation, performance and image" (pp. 223-255). Beer Sheva : Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Press. |
| Abstract: | More than a century ago, Samuel Poznanski charted in great detail the decided turn in northern France to peshuto shel miqra (the plain meaning of scripture) that was embraced by Rashi (d. 1105) and several of his students and Tosafist successors during the twelfth-century, including Joseph Qara, Rashbam and Joseph Bekhor Shor of Orleans (d. c. 1190). However, Poznanski and others maintain that this quest for peshat (sensus literalis) interpretation in northern France largely came to an end during the thirteenth-century with the appearance of the so-called Tosafist Torah compilations. These heavily focused on midrashic interpretation (Poznanski 1913: viii-cxxv; Grossman 1995: 462-77; Touitou, 2003: 11-47; Japhet 2004: 413-18). |
| Description: | Scholarly book chapter |
| URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12202/8471 |
| ISBN: | 9789655363203 |
| Appears in Collections: | Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies (BRGS): Faculty Publications |
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