This dissertation examines a twelfth-century Christian's use of Jewish exegetical materials in his literal commentary on the Book of Psalms, a text central to both Judaism and Christianity. The study situates Herbert of Bosham (d. 1194?) within the wider context of twelfth-centu…
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An interpretation of Paul's Letter to the Romans for preachers and general readers. In the introduction the author develops his interpretation against the classic forms of interpretation. While many see Paul's Letter to the Romans as theological in nature the author challenges t…
In the Preface to the Guide of the Perplexed (c.1190), Maimonides asks his readers not to write commentaries on the text. In spite of his request, formal commentaries and glosses began to appear in the 13th century and continued to be written until the early 19th century. This m…
The Tsene-rene is a Yiddish text first published in the early 1600s that some have described as a Bible for women. Attributed to Ya’akov ben Yiẓḥak of Yanov, a figure we know little about, the Tsene-rene is a seamless compilation of Bible stories, commentaries, and folktales arr…
This dissertation studies a portion of the Commentary on the Psalms by the Syrian author Dionysius Bar Salibi (died 1171). Bar Salibi was a bishop of the Syrian Orthodox Church who played an important role in the final flowering of the Syriac literary and theological tradition k…
This dissertation revisits the life and works of one of the Sikh tradition's first and best-known interpretive writers, Bhai Gurdas Bhalla (d. 1636). In introducing this "Saint Paul" of Sikhism to an English audience, this dissertation argues that the most important operative me…
This study is a comparative textual analysis of exoteric and S[dotbelow]ufi commentaries on the Qur'an from the classical Period of Islam (10th to 15th centuries), which demonstrates a relationship between hermeneutical assumptions and exegetical styles. Part One examines statem…
Abu Is[dotbelow]h[dotbelow]aq Ah[dotbelow]mad b. Muh[dotbelow]ammad b. Ibrahim al-Tha`labi's work, al-Kashf wa-al-bayan `an tafsir al-Qur`an , is one of the most important medieval Qur`an commentaries that has not been edited as yet. Although prominent scholars of Islam have bee…