Cambridge University Press Unisex Multicolor Interpreting Scriptures In Judaism, Christianity & Islam

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Interpreting Scriptures in Judaism, Christianity and IslamOverlapping Inquiries\nAuthor(s): Mordechai Z. Cohen, Adele Berlin\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781107065680, 978-1107065680\nSynopsis\nThis comparative study traces Jewish, Christian, and Muslim scriptural interpretation from antiquity to modernity, with special emphasis on the pivotal medieval period. It focuses on three areas: responses in the different faith traditions to tensions created by the need to transplant scriptures into new cultural and linguistic contexts; changing conceptions of the literal sense and its importance vis--vis non-literal senses, such as the figurative, spiritual, and midrashic; and ways in which classical rhetoric and poetics informed - or were resisted in - interpretation. Concentrating on points of intersection, the authors bring to light previously hidden aspects of methods and approaches in Judaism, Ch.