A Philosopher of Scripture

The Exegesis and Thought of Tanḥum ha-Yerushalmi

Raphael Dascalu (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

492 Seiten

2019
Brill (Verlag)
9789004382213 (ISBN)

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In A Philosopher of Scripture: The Exegesis and Thought of Tanḥum ha-Yerushalmi, Raphael Dascalu presents a detailed intellectual portrait of Tanḥum ha-Yerushalmi (d. 1291, Egypt) – a Jewish philosopher and mystic, linguist and philologist, and a biblical exegete of singular breadth.

Tanḥum b. Joseph ha-Yerushalmi (d. 1291, Fusṭāṭ, Egypt) was a rigorous linguist and philologist, philosopher and mystic, and a biblical exegete of singular breadth. As well as providing us with an insight into the inner world of a profound and original thinker, his oeuvre sheds light on a Jewish historical and cultural milieu that remains relatively poorly understood: the Islamic East in the post-Maimonidean period.

In A Philosopher of Scripture: The Exegesis and Thought of Tanḥum ha-Yerushalmi, Raphael Dascalu presents the first detailed intellectual portrait of Tanḥum ha-Yerushalmi. Tanḥum emerges as a polymath with a clear intellectual program, an eclectic thinker who brought multiple traditions together in his search for the philosophical meaning of Scripture.

Raphael Dascalu (PhD, University of Chicago, 2016) is an Adjunct Research Associate at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. His research focuses primarily on medieval Judaeo-Arabic thought and literature.

Acknowledgments

Note on Translations and Transliteration

Introduction

1 Tanḥum Ha-Yerushalmi’s Life and Works

2 Tanḥum’s Biblical Exegesis in Context

3 Tanḥum’s Commentary to the Book of Jonah

4 Tanḥum’s Commentary to Qohelet

5 Tanḥum’s Commentary to the Song of Songs

Concluding Remarks

Appendix A: Tanḥum Ha-Yerushalmi’s Commentary to the Book of Jonah: Introduction and Esoteric Commentary

Appendix B: Tanḥum Ha-Yerushalmi’s Introduction to His Commentary on Qohelet

Appendix C: Tanḥum Ha-Yerushalmi’s Introduction to His Commentary to the Song of Songs

Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	06.09.2019
Reihe/Serie	Études sur le judaïsme médiéval ; 80
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	912 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
ISBN-13	9789004382213 / 9789004382213
Zustand	Neuware