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Last Name
OCHS & LEVENE
First Name
Peter & Nancy , eds.
Title
Textual Reasonings: Jewish Philosophy and Text Study at the end of the Twentieth Century
Publisher
William B. Eerdmans
Year
2002
Group
PMO1
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Contents:

  • Anthological midrash and cultural paideia: the case of Songs Rabba 1.2 / Michael Fishbane
  • 'The kisses of his mouth': intimacy and intermediacy as performative aspects of a midrash community / Steven Fraade
  • Fishbane's commentary to Song of Songs Rabba as analytic textual reasoning / Steven Kepnes
  • Revelation revealed: the doubt of Torah / Tikva Frymer-Kensky
  • Revelation revealed or reveiled?: 'Jewish' and 'Christian' interpretation in late antiquity / Virginia Burrus
  • Response to 'Revelation revealed' / Aryeh Cohen
  • Gold and silver: philosophical Talmud / Robert Gibbs, Peter Ochs
  • Rabbis of gold and sages of silver: a response to 'Philosophical Talmud' / Shaul Magid
  • Why Talmud: renewing response / Robert Gibbs
  • Talmudic scholarship as textual reasoning: Halivni's pragmatic historiography / Peter Ochs
  • Response to 'Talmudic scholarship as textual reasoning' / David Halivni
  • Textual reasoning and Jewish philosophy: the next phase of Jewish postmodernity? / Eugene Borowitz
  • Textual reasoning, modernity and the limits of history / Jacob Meskin
  • Textual reasoning and cultural memory: a response to Jacob Meskin / Martin Kavka
  • Exegesis, redemption and the maculate Torah / Randi Rashkover
  • Elu ve-elu: textual difference and sublime judgement in Eruvin and Lyotard / Zachary Braiterman
  • Seeing the doubting judge: Jewish ethics and the postmodern project / Laurie Zoloth
  • Franz Rosenzweig, the 1920s and the <email> moment of textual reasoning / Michael Zank
  • Progress in textual reasoning: from Vatican II to the conference at Drew / George Lindbeck
  • Responding to textual reasoning: what might Christians learn? / David Ford
  • Textual reasoning: a concluding reflection / Daniel Hardy
  • Epilogues / Nancy Levene, Peter Ochs