LINGUIST List 13.3280

Thu Dec 12 2002

Books: Philosophy of Language: Samely

Editor for this issue: Marisa Ferrara <marisalinguistlist.org>

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1. bartonm, Rabbinic Interpretation of Scripture in the Mishnah

			
Title: Rabbinic Interpretation of Scripture in the Mishnah

Publication Year: 2002
Publisher: Oxford University Press 
 http://www.oup-usa.org/		 
			
Book URL: http://www.oup-usa.org/isbn/0198270313.html

Author: Alexander Samely, Machester University 

Hardback: ISBN: 0198270313, Pages: 498 pp, Price: $ 85.00
			
Abstract:

This volume offers a systematic and detailed description of early
rabbinic hermeneutics as it can be reconstructed from the Mishnah
(third century c.e.). Samely clarifies the conditions of a modern
appreciation of rabbinic hermeneutics and provides a unified set of
concepts for its precise description, based on modern linguistics and
philosophy of language. Basic features of rabbinic hermeneutics and
its difference from modern historical reading are explained, and a
catalogue of recurrent techniques of interpretation is defined.

Lingfield(s): Discourse Analysis,
		Philosophy of Language

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