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

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Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSefer Moshe
Subtitle of host publicationThe Moshe Weinfeld Jubilee Volume - Studies in the Bible and the Ancient Near East, Qumran, and Post-Biblical Judaism
EditorsChaim Cohen, Avi Hurvitz, Shalom M. Paul
Place of PublicationWinona Lake, IN
PublisherEisenbrauns
Pages403-426
ISBN (Electronic)9781575065410, 157506541X
ISBN (Print)9781575060743, 1575060744
DOIs
StatePublished - 2004

Bibliographical note

נוסח עברי: "המתח בין פשוטו של מקרא ובין מדרש ההלכה: בעיה ללא פתרון?", דור דור ופרשניו, 2008, עמ' 35–54 (פרק ב)

Keywords

  • Midrash ; Aggada ; Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc ; Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500 ; Bible -- Hermeneutics ; Ibn Ezra, Abraham ben Meïr, 1089-1164 ; Samuel ben Meir, active 11th century-12th century. Perush ha-Torah

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