| Halakhic Hermeneutics Revised Edition Contributor(s): Neusner, Jacob (Author) |
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ISBN: 0761825282 ISBN-13: 9780761825289 Publisher: University Press of America OUR PRICE: $123.75 Product Type: Hardcover Published: April 2003 Annotation: This book presents an inductive account, through systematic inquiry into data, of the hermeneutics of the principal documents of Rabbinic Judaism. It undertakes a hypothetical-logical reconstruction of the thought-processes that generated the category-formations of the Halakhah, that is, the exegesis of the hermeneutics of Halakhic exegesis. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Judaism - Talmud |
| Dewey: 296.127 |
| LCCN: 2003045672 |
| Series: Studies in Judaism |
| Physical Information: 1.01" H x 6.14" W x 9.26" (1.40 lbs) 328 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Jewish |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book presents an inductive account, through systematic inquiry into data, of the hermeneutics of the principal documents of Rabbinic Judaism. It undertakes a hypothetical-logical reconstruction of the thought-processes that generated the category-formations of the Halakhah, that is, the exegesis of the hermeneutics of Halakhic exegesis. To do so, Neusner asks whether a determinate theory of interpretation guides the sages in their exposition of the topics, the category-formations, of Rabbinic Judaism in the documents that expound those formations. His answer is, a hermeneutics of comparison and contrast yielding a hierarchical classification of data governs the selection of data and the interpretation thereof for the entire corpus of category-formations of the Halakhah. Hence 'Halakhic hermeneutics' here bears the primary meaning, 'a hermeneutics of analogical-contrastive analysis.' |