In this Book
- Summoning: Ideas of the Covenant and Interpretive Theory
- Book
- 1993
- Published by: State University of New York Press
- Series: SUNY series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture
summary
This book explores the variety of ways that the Jewish understanding of the Covenant relates to the notion of a contract or a shared grammar as developed in recent structural and post-structural theory. The book enters the debate on the relationship beween a variety of open-ended forms of text interpretation and traditional Jewish interpretive practice, expanding and deepening that debate. Until now, the discussion has focused primarily on Midrashic interpretation; these essays balance the assumption of the openness of interpretation with an exploration of the concurrent restrictions on interpretation imposed by a covenant.
Table of Contents
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- INTRODUCTION
- p. ix
- CHAPTER 6 The Sign of the Covenant
- pp. 115-128
- Covenants and Texts
- p. 129
- CONTRIBUTORS
- pp. 271-272
Additional Information
ISBN
9781438420844
MARC Record
OCLC
794701357
Pages
272
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No