Three Approaches to Biblical Metaphor: From Abraham Ibn Ezra and Maimonides to David Kimhi

by Mordechai Z. Cohen

This volume explores how the poetic technique of biblical metaphor was analyzed within the Jewish exegetical tradition that developed in Muslim Spain during the Golden Age of Hebrew poetry and was then transplanted to a Christian milieu. Abraham Ibn Ezra and Maimonides applied concepts from Arabic poetics, hermeneutics and logic to define metaphor and interpret it within their philological-literary readings of Scripture. David Kimhi integrated their...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004129715
• ISBN13: 9789004129719
• Release Date: May 2003
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 396 Pages
• Weight: 1.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.6" x 9.7"