Black Fire on White Fire: An Essay on Jewish Hermeneutics, from Midrash to Kabbalah Volume 10

by Betty Rojtman

Using the tools of contemporary semiotic theory to analyze classical rabbinic hermeneutics and medieval mystical exegesis, Betty Rojtman unveils a striking modernity in these early forms of textual interpretation. The metaphor from rabbinic literature that describes the writing of the Torah--black fire on white fire--becomes, in Rojtman's analysis, a figure for the differential structures that can be found throughout rabbinic discourse. Moving through...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520203216
• ISBN13: 9780520203211
• Release Date: February 1998
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 205 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.3"