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	Biblical exegesis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Biblical exegesis (from the Greek ἐξηγεῖσθαι 'to lead out') is an extensive and critical interpretation of the Bible.
		The word exegesis means to draw the meaning out of a given text.
		In general, exegesis presumes an attempt to view the text objectively, while eisegesis is more subjective.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Biblical_exegesis (148 words)

	Rabbinic literature - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Meforshim is a Hebrew word meaning "(classical rabbinical) commentators" (or roughly meaning "exegetes"), and is used as a substitute for the correct word perushim which means "commentaries".
		In Judaism this term refers to commentaries by the commentators on the Torah (five books of Moses), Tanakh, the Mishnah, the Talmud, responsa, even the siddur (Jewish prayerbook), and more.
		After Rashi the Tosafos were written, which was an omnibus commentary on the Talmud by the disciplies and descendants of Rashi; this commentary was based on discussions done in the rabbinic academies of Germany and France.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jewish_Biblical_exegesis (911 words)

	Ask Us A Question (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Jewish holidays, mostly festivals (haggim), celebrate revelation by commemorating different events in the passage of the Children of Israel out of slavery in Egypt to their return to the Land of Israel.
		Synagogues are Jewish houses of prayer and study, they usually contain separate rooms for prayer (the main sanctuary), smaller rooms for study, and often an area for community or educational use.
		Jews trace their religious lineage to the biblical patriarch Abraham, who established a covenant with God and moved to Canaan with his followers around 1800 BCE according to the Bible, through Isaac and Jacob, and they consider Abraham to be the starter of Judaism.
	www.avoo.com /wiki/Judaism (9821 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Biblical Exegesis
		Exegesis is the branch of theology which investigates and expresses the true sense of Sacred Scripture.
		Exegesis aims at investigating the sense of Sacred Scripture; its method is contained in the rules of interpretation; its results are expressed in the various ways in which the sense of the Bible is wont to be communicated; its history comprises the work done by Christian and Jewish interpreters, by Catholics and Protestants.
		Catholic exegesis subsequent to the Council of Trent may be divided into three stages: the first may be regarded as the terminus of the Scholastic period; the second forms the transition from the old to the new exegesis; and the third comprises the exegetical work of recent times.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/05692b.htm (13370 words)

	The Apocypha and Pseudepigrapha
		This is an extremely important development, for it permits the Jewish literature of the Second Temple Period, and the people who produced and cherished these works, to step outside the giant shadows cast by the twin colossi of the Talmud and the New Testament.
		Biblical Antiquities: Sometimes also called Pseudo-Philo, this is a biblical history from the creation to the monarchy and seems to have been written before the destruction of the Temple by the Romans.
		A Jewish apocalypse from the time before the destruction of the Temple, relating Enoch's ascent to the heavens and the revelations received by him there, as well as the history of the antediluvian generations.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/Judaism/apocrypha.html (2934 words)

	Religion - Overview - Jewish Reference: People, Places, and All Things Jewish
		According to Jewish law, someone is considered to be a Jew if he or she was born of a Jewish mother or converted in accord with Jewish Law.
		Called the Jewish New Year because it celebrates the day that the world was created, and marks the advance in the calendar from one year to the next, although it occurs in the seventh month, Tishri.
		Jewish history is an extensive topic; this section will cover the elements of Jewish history of most importance to the Jewish religion and the development of Jewish denominations.
	www.jewishreference.com /religion-overview.html (7279 words)

	The Zohar
		Jewish historiography holds that during a time of Roman persecution, Rabbi Simeon hid in a cave for 13 years, studying the Torah (five books of Moses) with his son Eliezar.
		Shabbat, the Jewish Sabbath, began to be looked upon as the embodiment of God in temporal life, and every ceremony performed on that day was considered to have an influence upon the superior world.
		Thus, in the language of some Jewish poets the beloved one's curls indicate the mysteries of the Deity; sensuous pleasures, and especially intoxication, typify the highest degree of divine love as ecstatic contemplation; while the wine-room represents merely the state through which the human qualities merge or are exalted into those of God.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/Judaism/Zohar.html (2569 words)

	The Institute of Jewish Studies - General (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Some of these linguistic phenomena are found in Biblical Hebrew but others B and they are the more interesting ones B characterize rabbinic and medieval Hebrew, and are applied by the commentator to his interpretation to the Bible.
		The research is of importance to the understanding of Biblical Hebrew as reflected in rabbinic and medieval exegesis, and contributes as well to our knowledge of the Hebrew of these sources.
		Special attention was given to the influence of Karaite biblical exegetic peculiarities on their Hebrew language usage as well as on Arabisms and other internal developments and neologisms.
	www.hum.huji.ac.il /jewish/language/staff.htm (3474 words)

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		Biblical scholarship today is largely an interfaith enterprise in which Jews, Christians, and secular scholars participate with the shared goal of advancing knowledge.
		Jewish biblical studies reached their apogee in Moslem Spain...The Spanish-Jewish achievement...had about it a uniqueness and originality, a vitality and pioneering quality that set it apart from anything that came before or after.
		It was in biblical studies, in all their ramifications, that the intellectual history of Spanish Jewry found its most fundamental and concrete articulation...Unlike the experience of the Jews of Christian Europe, the study of the Scriptures in Spain did not become the consolidation of past learning.
	www.sas.upenn.edu /~jtigay/NMSINTRO3.doc (3652 words)

	Biblical Seminary - Equip - Course Descriptions - New Testament Studies
		A study of the four Gospels, including Jewish backgrounds, the geography of Palestine and Jerusalem, some key passages about Jesus, the theology, history, and criticism of the Gospels, and exegesis of passages illustrating various genres and themes.
		In accord with Jewish and Christian traditions, we affirm that Scripture has multiple complex senses given by God, the author of the whole drama.
		A survey of ancient Jewish literary sources that help to illuminate the New Testament-the Targums, the Septuagint, the OT Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha, the Qumran literature, Philo, Josephus, and the rabbinic literature.
	www.biblical.edu /pages/equip/classes-c-new-testament.htm (1106 words)

	Oberlin College Course Catalog
		Majors with a concentration in Jewish history are required to select three additional JWST history courses, including a second semester of the required survey (JWST 131/132), if that was not taken to satisfy the core requirement, and at least one 300-level seminar.
		Studies include: the Musar and Jewish enlightenment movements; government Jewry policies and Jewish responses; economic and demographic change; Jewish nationalism, Jewish socialism; Jewish political parties and strategies; the birth of modern Hebrew and Yiddish literature; massive emigration; and Jewish strategies under overtly anti-Jewish regimes in the interwar period.
		Using biblical and rabbinic materials, medieval communal and personal documents, and women's letters, memoirs and rituals, this course explores gender roles and power relations between Jewish women and men; women's economic functions and power; women and traditional and modernized religion; responses to persecution; feminism.
	www.oberlin.edu /catalog/college/jewish.html (1473 words)

	368-The Bible in the Middle Ages
		This course aims to study the uses of the Bible in Medieval Judaism, focusing on the different Jewish approaches to the biblical text.
		We will read selected biblical passages (in English translation) and examine how they were interpreted by the major commentators in these schools.
		Since differences in understanding of the biblical text reflect major changes in social and political history, a strong emphasis will be put on the setting in which commentaries were written.
	polyglot.lss.wisc.edu /hebrew/368syS2004.html (654 words)

	Bible (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Also included are readings on the features of biblical Poetry, the concept of exile and return in the Bible and beyond, and the literature of lament in the ancient near East.
		The Spanish Biblical Exegetical Tradition from its origins in Saadiah until Nahmanides; methods of interpretation; linguistic, literary, and philosophic issues raised by the Biblical text; emphasis on primary texts, but historical and cultural backgrounds are analyzed; readings in the contemporary scholarly literature.
		Philological exegesis of Aramaic passages of Ezra based on concomitant study of Aramaic grammar.
	www.yu.edu /Revel/bible.htm (829 words)

	Harvard University Press: The Exegetical Imagination: On Jewish Thought and Theology by Michael Fishbane
		One of the leading specialists in the history of Jewish interpretation of the Bible has here applied himself to the broader matter of Jewish hermeneutic and how it is employed in the theology, mythology and theosophy of Judaism...A sound and useful corrective to those with a narrower notion of Jewish exegesis.
		The presupposition is that 'Jewish thought and theology arise in the thickness of exegesis and are carried by its forms'.
		Michael Fishbane is Nathan Cummings Professor of Jewish Studies, and Chair of the Committee on Jewish Studies, at the University of Chicago.
	www.hup.harvard.edu /catalog/FISEXE.html?show=reviews (323 words)

	Faith And Practice
		Moreover, these worthy men have never themselves claimed so high a distinction for their enactments; nor did they ever contemplate, that the large majority of the observances which they enacted, in a troublous age, for the safety of Judaism, would outlive the times for the exigencies of which they had been introduced.
		They knew well the history and the constitution of the Jewish Synagogue, and could never have wished to deprive her of that privilege which she has exercised at all times, that of modifying outward forms derived from human authority which are contrary to the feelings, or at variance with the circumstances, of the time being.
		But notwithstanding the ceremonials may be subject to, and from time to time demand, modification, still these changes are not to be made rashly, nor by the inexperienced or the unlettered; but should occupy the consideration of the acknowledged teachers of Israel.
	www.jewish-history.com /Occident/volume2/dec1844/faith.html (1630 words)

	Dr. Robert A. Harris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Robert A. Harris is Associate Professor of Bible at The Jewish Theological Seminary, teaching courses in biblical literature and commentary, particularly medieval Jewish biblical exegesis.
		An expert in the history of medieval Biblical exegesis, Dr. Harris's dissertation was titled "The Literary Hermeneutic of Rabbi Eliezer of Beaugency." Dr. Harris has published several articles and reviews in both American and Israeli journals.
		He is married to Nellie, a Jewish educator, and is the proud father of two teenage daughters, Naamah and Merav.
	www.jtsa.edu /progs/bib/roharris/index.shtml (425 words)

	judaism jews
		The Medieval Jewish Kingdom of the Khazars, 740-1259
		"Secular" is more popular among Israeli families of western (European)origin, whose Jewish identity may be a very powerful force in their lives, but who see it as largely independant of traditional religious belief and practice.
		This portion of the population largely ignores or avoids ignores organized religious life, be it of the official Israeli rabbinate (Orthodox) or of the liberal movements common to diaspora Judaism (Reform, Conservative).
	www.findthelinks.com /Religion/judaism.htm (1482 words)

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		He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Jewish Studies at McGill University and is a research fellow affiliated with the University of the Free State, South Africa.
		He specializes in the history of Jewish biblical exegesis and his specific research interests include rabbinic anti-Christian polemic, medieval intellectual history as reflected in biblical commentary, and biblical interpretation after the Holocaust.
		A Rabbinic Critique of the Use of Exegetical Traditions in the LXX and the Testament of Job by the Fathers of the Early Church" in G. Oegema and H. Lichtenberger, eds., The Changing Face of Judaism, Christianity and Other Greco-Roman Religions in Antiquity" (Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlagshaus).
	www.huc.edu /faculty/faculty/JasonKalman.shtml (405 words)

	368syS2003.html
		Over the course of the semester, we will analyze the rise of three main Jewish schools of biblical interpretation in Spain, Ashkenaz and Provence.
		"Jewish biblical exegesis: Presuppositions and principles" in F.E. Greenspahn (ed.), Scripture in the Jewish and Christian traditions.
		M.A. Fishbane."Jewish biblical exegesis: Presuppositions and principles" in F.E. Greenspahn (ed.) Scripture in the Jewish and Christian traditions.
	polyglot.lss.wisc.edu /hebrew/368syS2003.html (1284 words)

	Jewish Studies
		Students in Jewish Studies may be required to master other languages, depending on their areas of specialization.
		For example, a student specializing in modern Jewish cultural history in Europe would be expected to demonstrate general knowledge of the course of pre-modern Jewish cultural history as well as the relevant areas of modern European culture.
		Students pursuing a graduate degree in Jewish Studies are required to meet the general graduate requirements for all students pursuing graduate degrees in the Department of Near Eastern Language and Civilizations.
	www.fas.harvard.edu /~nelc/jewish.html (643 words)

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		"Rabbi Jacob Pardo's Contribution to the Literary Exegesis of the Bible" [in Hebrew], Proceedings of the Tenth World Congress of Jewish Studies, Division A: The Bible and Its World, Jerusalem: World Union of Jewish Studies, 1990, pp.
		Meir Weiss in Biblical Study" [in Hebrew], Qiryat Sefer 63 (1991), pp.
		"Literary Biblical Exegesis in the 16th Century: A Study of the Commentary of R. Samuel Lanyado Concerning Saul's Rescue of Jabesh Gilead (1 Sam.
	www.biu.ac.il /faculty/friman/publ.html (1049 words)

	Medieval Bible Commentaries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Assumption that biblical texts are written according to supernatural standards of perfection and economy: No extra words or letters, precise word choices, etc.
		Biblical persons and events viewed as typological archetypes: e.g., Esau represents the evil Roman empire.
		Influenced by Arab grammatical and rationalistic approaches to Qur'anic exegesis.
	www.ucalgary.ca /~elsegal/RelS369/H04_BibleComment.html (254 words)

	Biblical Law-Author (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Ackroyd, Peter R., "The Jewish Community in Palestine in the Persian Period," in William David Davies and Louis Finkelstein, eds., The Cambridge History of Judaism, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984, 131–160.
		Baumgarten, Joseph M., "Congruences and Divergences from the Exegesis and Elaboration of Biblical Law Known from Rabbinical Sources," paper presented at the Biblical Law Section of the Society for Biblical Literature, 2002.
		Blenkinsopp, Joseph, "Was the Pentateuch the Civil and Religious Constitution of the Jewish Ethnos in the Persian Period?" in James W. Watts, Persia and Torah: The Theory of Imperial Authorization of the Pentateuch, 41–62, Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2001 (Society of Biblical Literature Symposium Series 17).
	www.law2.byu.edu /Biblical_Law/bibliography/authors.htm (11149 words)

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		An internationally recognized scholar of Jewish Biblical interpretation, Signer has written widely on Jewish Biblical exegesis in the medieval and later periods.
		He is currently working on a translation of the commentary on the Song of Songs by Rabbi Solomon ben Isaac, a well-known 11th-century Jewish Biblical commentator.
		Signer received a B.A. from UCLA, a M.A. from the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, and a Ph.D. from the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto.
	www.oberlin.edu /news-info/00mar/haskell_release.html (187 words)

	Early Jewish Biblical Interpretation
		James H. Charlesworth and Craig A. Evans, eds., The Pseudepigrapha and Early Biblical Interpretation.
		Early Jewish and Christian Exegesis: Studies in Memory of William Hugh Brownlee.
		Julio C. Trebolle Barrera, The Jewish Bible and the Christian Bible: An Introduction to the History of the Bible.
	home.comcast.net /~rciampa/otjewishbib.htm (367 words)

	Jewish-Languages Mailing List: February 2002
		Ahiezer is a research student in the Department of Jewish History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and is engaged in research at the Ben-Zvi Institute.
		The article deals with the influence of Hebrew on the lexicon of Jewish languages, mainly in the East, illustrating the literary and cultural basis of Hebrew words that appear in Jewish languages in a new context, occasionally unexpected.
		I think this phenomenon is comparable to Jewish languages in so far as in both cases a local language is written in Arabic/Hebrew script because of the religious and cultural prestige of that script within the group that uses it.
	www.jewish-languages.org /ml/200202.html (5411 words)

	Biblical Exegesis - Wheaton College Graduate School
		The Biblical Exegesis program is an ancient language based program, which emphasizes study in both the Old and New Testaments.
		The program is designed to explore the Biblical text both within its historic contexts as well as its use in modern worldwide contexts.
		BITH 532 Greek Exegesis in the Septuagint (2 or 4)
	www.wheatongrad.com /?p=40 (303 words)

	JewishLA.org: Vayishlah 5762
		The Hebrew text of the Torah captures the true extent of Jacob's fear.
		Literally, "Jacob was very frightened and upset." A standard principle of Jewish Biblical exegesis holds that no word in the Torah is redundant.
		In Jewish lore, the Leviathan symbolizes the Messianic era, and our yearning for a more just and perfect society.
	www.jewishla.org /TorahBytes/html/vayishlah5762.html (566 words)

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