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Title: PESHAT AND DERASH
PLAIN AND APPLIED MEANING IN RABBINIC EXEGESIS
By: David Weiss Halivni
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0195115716
ISBN 13: 9780195115710
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Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS INC
Pub. date: 1 May, 1998
Pages: 270
Description: In this paperback reprint (which includes a new Afterword, responding to critics), noted Rabbinic scholar David Weiss Halivni offers a new explanation for the willingness of the early Sages to attribute to scripture meanings nowhere suggested in the text itself. He posits a sharp discontinuity between what the sages considered a valid meaning and our own modern understanding of textual meaning. He argues that the original meaning of the very work "peshat" wasactually "context" rather than "literal" meaning, thus explaining the Rabbis' expressions of respect for peshat in the face of their evident unconcern for literal meaning in the text.
Synopsis: In this paperback reprint (which includes a new Afterword, responding to critics), noted Rabbinic scholar David Weiss Halivni offers a new explanation for the willingness of the early Sages to attribute to scripture meanings nowhere suggested in the text itself. He posits a sharp discontinuity between what the sages considered a valid meaning and our own modern understanding of textual meaning. He argues that the original meaning of the very work "peshat" was actually "context" rather than "literal" meaning, thus explaining the Rabbis' expressions of respect for peshat in the face of their evident unconcern for literal meaning in the text.
Publication: US
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
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