Rashi

Rashi, biblical interpretation, and Latin learning in medieval Europe: a new perspective on an exegetical revolution

by Cohen, Mordechai Z.

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In this volume, Mordechai Z. Cohen explores the interpretive methods of Rashi of Troyes (1040-1105), the most influential Jewish Bible commentator of all time. By elucidating the 'plain sense' (peshat) of Scripture, together with critically selected midrashic interpretations, Ra…

Rashi, biblical interpretation, and Latin learning in medieval Europe: a new perspective on an exegetical revolution

by Cohen, Mordechai Z.

0 Type: Book

"Introduction Rabbi Solomon Yitzhaqi (1040-1105), known as Rashi, is perhaps the most influential Jewish Bible interpreter of all time. A native of Troyes in the French county of Champagne, Rashi traveled in his youth to study for a decade in the Rhineland talmudic academies (ye…

Rashi, biblical interpretation, and Latin learning in medieval Europe: a new perspective on an exegetical revolution

by Cohen, Mordechai Z.

0 Type: Book

"Introduction Rabbi Solomon Yitzhaqi (1040-1105), known as Rashi, is perhaps the most influential Jewish Bible interpreter of all time. A native of Troyes in the French county of Champagne, Rashi traveled in his youth to study for a decade in the Rhineland talmudic academies (ye…

Rashi, biblical interpretation, and Latin learning in medieval Europe: a new perspective on an exegetical revolution

by Cohen, Mordechai Z.

0 Type: Book

"Introduction Rabbi Solomon Yitzhaqi (1040-1105), known as Rashi, is perhaps the most influential Jewish Bible interpreter of all time. A native of Troyes in the French county of Champagne, Rashi traveled in his youth to study for a decade in the Rhineland talmudic academies (ye…

This dissertation examines the commentaries of Rashi and the Glossa Ordinaria on the Binding of Isaac in Genesis 22, the similarities and differences between the two commentaries, and the ways that these commentaries adapt and transform their rabbinic and patristic or Carolingia…