Peshat & Derash: Plain & Applied Meaning in Rabbinic Exegesis: Plain and Applied Meaning in Rabbinic Exegesis

by David Weiss Halivni (Author)

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  1999

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  This text offers an explanation in this text for the willingness of the early sages to attribute to scripture meanings not suggested in the text itself. The author posits a sharp discontinuity between what the sages considered a valid meaning and our own modern understanding of textual meaning.