Creating Fictional Worlds: Peshaṭ-Exegesis and Narrativity in Rashbam's Commentary on the Torah

by Hanna Liss

R. Samuel ben Meir (b. 1085) wrote his Torah commentary at a point in time when the French masters of Bible collected their glossae, but he wrote it also at the point in time that we today consider to be the turning point in 'lay literacy, ' when the Anglo-Norman aristocracy patronized the production of romances. In the first half of the 12th century, Northern France was a vibrant spot. It was an era in which composing, reading, and listening to narratives...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004194568
• ISBN13: 9789004194564
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.6"