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

ISBN: 0520203216

ISBN13: 9780520203211

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

(Part of the Contraversions: Critical Studies in Jewish Literature, Culture, and Society Series)

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...

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