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Rashi's commentary on the Torah : canonization and resistance in the reception of a Jewish classic
- Title
- Rashi's commentary on the Torah : canonization and resistance in the reception of a Jewish classic / Eric Lawee.
- Author
- Lawee, Eric
- Publication
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 20-28 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xviii, 478 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- "This book explores the reception history of the most important Jewish Bible commentary ever composed, the Commentary on the Torah of Rashi (Shlomo Yitzhaki; 1040-1105). Though the Commentary has benefited from enormous scholarly attention, analysis of diverse reactions to it has been surprisingly scant. Viewing its path to preeminence through a diverse array of religious, intellectual, literary, and sociocultural lenses, Eric Lawee focuses on processes of the Commentary's canonization and on a hitherto unexamined--and wholly unexpected--feature of its reception: critical, and at times astonishingly harsh, resistance to it. Lawee shows how and why, despite such resistance, Rashi's interpretation of the Torah became an exegetical classic, a staple in the curriculum, a source of shared religious vocabulary for Jews across time and place, and a foundational text that shaped the Jewish nation's collective identity. The book takes as its larger integrating perspective processes of canonicity as they shape how traditions flourish, disintegrate, or evolve. Rashi's scriptural magnum opus, the foremost work of Franco-German (Ashkenazic) biblical scholarship, faced stiff competition for canonical supremacy in the form of rationalist reconfigurations of Judaism as they developed in Mediterranean seats of learning. It nevertheless emerged triumphant in an intense battle for Judaism's future that unfolded in late medieval and early modern times. Investigation of the reception of the Commentary throws light on issues in Jewish scholarship and spirituality that continue to stir reflection, and even passionate debate, in the Jewish world today."--
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Commentaries.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Call Number
- JFE 20-28
- ISBN
- 9780190937836
- 0190937831
- 9780190937850 (canceled/invalid)
- 0190937858 (canceled/invalid)
- 9780190937867 (canceled/invalid)
- 0190937866 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2018038620
- OCLC
- 1050142872
- Author
- Lawee, Eric, author.
- Title
- Rashi's commentary on the Torah : canonization and resistance in the reception of a Jewish classic / Eric Lawee.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 20-28