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Subject: Religion Book Title: Biblical Interpretation in Ancient Israel

Biblical Interpretation in Ancient Israel

Fishbane, Michael Nathan Cummings Professor of Jewish Studies, University of Chicago Divinity School

Print publication date: 1988
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-826699-0
doi:10.1093/0198266995.001.0001

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Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

1. Introduction. The Role of Scribes in the Transmission of Biblical Literature

2. Lexical and Explicative Comments

3. Pious Revisions and Theological Addenda

4. Conclusions

5. Introduction. The Scope and Content of Biblical Law as a Factor in the Emergence of Exegesis

6. Legal Exegesis With Verbatim, Paraphrastic, or Pseudocitations in Historical Sources

7. Legal Exegesis With Covert Citations in Historical Sources

8. Legal Exegesis and Explication in the Pentateuchal Legal Corpora

9. Conclusions

10. Introduction. Preliminary Considerations

11. Aggadic Exegesis of Legal Traditions in the Prophetic Literature

12. Aggadic Transformations of Non-Legal Pentateuchal Traditions

13. Aggadic Exegesis in the Historiographical Literature

14. Conclusions

15. Introduction. The Shape and Nature of Mantological Material as Factors for Exegesis

16. The Mantological Exegesis of Dreams, Visions, and Omens

17. The Mantological Exegesis of Oracles

18. Generic Transformations

19. Conclusions

20. Epilogue

21. Addenda

Bibliography

Index

doi:10.1093/0198266995.001.0001