Rabbinic Interpretation of Scripture in the Mishnah

by Alexander Samely

This volume offers a systematic and detailed description of early rabbinic hermeneutics as it can be reconstructed from the Mishnah (third century c.e.). Samely clarifies the conditions of a modern appreciation of rabbinic hermeneutics and provides a unified set of concepts for its precise description, based on modern linguistics and philosophy of language. Basic features of rabbinic hermeneutics and its difference from modern historical reading are...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198270313
• ISBN13: 9780198270317
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"