In this Book
- Isaac On Jewish and Christian Altars: Polemic and Exegesis in Rashi and the Glossa Ordinaria
- Book
- 2012
- Published by: Fordham University Press
- Series: Fordham Series in Medieval Studies (FUP)
summary
Devorah Schoenfeld's new work offers an in-depth examination of two of the most influential Christian and Jewish Bible commentaries of the High Middle Ages. The Glossa Ordinaria and Rashi's commentary were standard texts for Bible study in the High Middle Ages, and Rashi's influence continues to the present day. Although Rashi's commentary and the Glossa developed at the same time with no known contact between them, they shared a way of reading text that shaped their interpretations of the central religious narrative of the Binding of Isaac. Schoenfeld's text examines each commentary unto itself and offers a detailed comparison, one that illustrates the similarities between Rashi and the Gloss that derive not merely from their shared late antique heritage but also from their common twelfth-century context, and the Jewish-Christian polemic in which they both, implicitly or explicitly, take part.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. i-iv
- Acknowledgments
- p. vii
- Notes on Format
- p. ix
- Introduction
- pp. 1-13
- Chapter Two. Rashi and His Sources
- pp. 31-60
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- pp. 207-222
- Further Reading
- p. 230
Additional Information
ISBN
9780823246397
Related ISBN(s)
9780823243495
MARC Record
OCLC
830023258
Pages
240
Launched on MUSE
2012-12-20
Language
English
Open Access
No