Judaism and the Interpretation of Scripture: Introduction to the Rabbinic Midrash
By Jacob Neusner.
Description
In the first six hundred years of the Common Era, Jewish scholars used several different methods to review and commentate on earlier rabbis’ understanding of the Hebrew Scriptures. By about 200 CE, these perspectives had been recorded and gathered together to form the Midrash (which is now the first section of the Torah.) Midrash is more than a book, however. Midrash as a process defines the way Judaism reads scripture. Rabbinic Midrash—as set forth in canonical documents from rabbinical sages in the first 600 years CE—mediates scripture to those who, by faith, meet God ...
ISBN(s)
1565637062, 9781565637061
