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<p>The study of midrash&mdash;the biblical exegesis, parables, and anecdotes of the Rabbis&mdash;has enjoyed a renaissance in recent years. Most recent scholarship, however, has focused on the aggadic or narrative midrash, while halakhic or legal midrash&mdash;the exegesis of biblical law&mdash;has received relatively little attention. In <i>Scripture as Logos</i>, Azzan Yadin addresses this long-standing need, examining early, tannaitic (70-200 C.E.) legal midrash, focusing on the interpretive tradition associated with the figure of Rabbi Ishmael.<br><br>This is a sophisticated study of midrashic hermeneutics, growing out of the observation that the Rabbi Ishmael midrashim contain a dual personification of Scripture, which is referred to as both "torah" and "ha-katuv." It is Yadin's significant contribution to note that the two terms are not in fact synonymous but rather serve as metonymies for Sinai on the one hand and, on the other, the rabbinic house of study, the bet midrash. Yadin develops this insight, ultimately presenting the complex but highly coherent interpretive ideology that underlies these rabbinic texts, an ideology that&mdash;contrary to the dominant view today&mda

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Author

Azzan Yadin-Israel

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780812237917

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Religion