Isaac On Jewish and Christian Altars: Polemic and Exegesis in Rashi and the Glossa Ordinaria

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Notes Introduction 1. Christopher De Hamel, Glossed Books of the Bible and the Origins of the Paris Booktrade (Suffolk: Brewer, 1984), xiii. 2. The classic study of the role of the akedah, the binding or near-sacrifice of Isaac, for Jewish Crusade-era martyrs is Shalom Spiegel, The Last Trial: On the Legends and Lore of the Command to Abraham to Offer Isaac as a Sacrifice: the Akedah (Woodstock: Jewish Lights, 1993). 3. For examples see Avraham Grossman, “The School of Literal Jewish Exegesis in Northern France,” in Hebrew Bible/Old Testament ed. Magne Sæbø vol 1, part 2, V 1, Pt 2, From the beginnings to the Middle Ages (until 1300) (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2000), 321–371. 4. For a study of Rashi’s influence on Herbert, see Deborah L. Goodwin, Take Hold of the Robe of a Jew: Herbert of Bosham’s Christian Hebraism (Leiden: Brill, 2006). 5. See Rainer Berndt, “The School of St. Victor in Paris,” in Hebrew Bible/Old Testament V 1, Pt 2, From the Beginnings to the Middle Ages (until 1300) (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2000), 467–495. 6. See Herman Hailperin, Rashi and the Christian Scholars (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1963). Also see Deanna Copeland Klepper, The Insight of Unbelievers: Nicholas of Lyra and Christian Reading of Jewish Text in the Later Middle Ages (Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007). 7. Bereshit Rabbati is on Genesis alone. R. Moses the Darshan may have also written a commentary on Numbers. See H. Albeck, ed., Midrash Bereshit Rabbati le-R. Moshe HaDarshan (Jerusalem: Mosad HaRav Kuk, 5727 [1940]), 5. 8. Grossman, “Literal Jewish Exegesis,” 348 9. Grossman, “Literal Jewish Exegesis,” 323. 10. Grossman, “Literal Jewish Exegesis,” 356. 11. Grossman, “Literal Jewish Exegesis,” 359. 12. Eliezer of Beaugency was a student of Rashbam’s. Robert A. Harris, “The Literary Hermeneutic of Rabbi Eliezer of Beaugency” (Ph.D. Diss., The Jewish Theological Seminary, 1997). 13. Beryl Smalley, “Gilbertus Univeralis, Bishop of London (1128–34), and the Problem of the Glossa Ordinaria,” Recherches de théologie ancienne et médiévale, 7 (1935) 235–262 and 8 (1936) 24–60. Smith, The Glossa Ordinaria: The Making of a Medieval Bible Commentary (Leiden: Brill, 2009), 28–31. 14. Smith, Glossa Ordinaria, 200–205. Notes to pages 3–5 175 15. Dahan, Gilbert. “Genres, Forms and Various Methods in Christian Exegesis of the Middle Ages,” in Hebrew Bible/Old Testament V 1, Pt 2, From the Beginnings to the Middle Ages (until 1300). Edited by C. Brekelmans, Menahem Haran, Magne Saebo. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2000, 208. 16. Margaret Gibson, “The Place of the Glossa Ordinaria in Medieval Exegesis,” in Ad litteram, Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1992, 5–28. 17. Gibson, “The Place of the Glossa Ordinaria,” 12–13. 18. Baer suggested that there is evidence from Rashi’s use of the term ‫מלך‬ ‫של‬ ‫כנסיה‬, which Baer argued is a translation of the Latin theological term ecclesia regis (church of the king). Baer, “Rashi and the Historical Reality of His Time,” 113. (Y. Baer, “Rashi and the World Around Him,” [Hebrew] Pages 489–502 in Sefer Rashi. Edited by Y. I. Hakohen Maimon (Jerusalem: Mosad HaRav Kuk, 1956). Reprint of article that originally appeared in Tarbiz 20 (1950) 320–332. Translated and adapted by Nathan Reisner in Jewish Intellectual History in the Middle Ages, ed. Joseph Dan. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1994, 113.) Rosenthal shows that this Hebrew term is also found in rabbinic literature. Rosenthal , “Anti-Christian Polemics” 104 n. 21. (Yehuda Rosenthal, “Anti-Christian Polemics in the Biblical Commentaries of Rashi.” Studies and Texts in Jewish History, Literature and Religion. Jerusalem, 1967, 104 n. 21.) 19. For an overview of literal Jewish exegesis in Northern France, see Grossman, “Literal Jewish Exegesis.” 20. For a discussion of non-normative legal exegesis in Rashbam, see Sara Japhet, “The Tension between Rabbinic Legal Midrash and the ‘Plain Meaning’ (Peshat) of the Biblical Text—An Unresolved Problem? In the Wake of Rashbam’s Commentary on the Pentateuch,” in Sefer Moshe: The Moshe Weinfeld Jubilee Volume, ed. Ch. Cohen, A. Hurvitz, and Sh. Paul (Winona Lake, Ind., 2004), 403–426. 21. See Chapter One. 22. Berndt, “St. Victor,” 480–482. 23. Goodwin, Take Hold of the Robe of a Jew, 54–57. 24. Goodwin, Take Hold of the Robe of a Jew, 67–71. 25. Berndt, “St. Victor,” 481. Berndt carefully identifies Andrew’s Jewish informants as being of “Rashi’s school” rather than Rashi himself. 26. Hailperin, Rashi...