A Philosopher of Scripture

The Exegesis and Thought of Tanḥum Ha-Yerushalmi
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-38221-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 80, 482 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 912 g

Reihe: Études sur le judaïsme médiéval

Tanhum b. Joseph ha-Yerushalmi (d. 1291, Fustat, Egypt) was a rigorous linguist and philologist, philosopher and mystic, and a biblical exegete of singular breadth. As well as providing us with an insight into the inner world of a profound and original thinker, his oeuvre sheds light on a Jewish historical and cultural milieu that remains relatively poorly understood: the Islamic East in the post-Maimonidean period.

In A Philosopher of Scripture: The Exegesis and Thought of Tanhum ha-Yerushalmi, Raphael Dascalu presents the first detailed intellectual portrait of Tanhum ha-Yerushalmi. Tanhum emerges as a polymath with a clear intellectual program, an eclectic thinker who brought multiple traditions together in his search for the philosophical meaning of Scripture.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dascalu, Raphael

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums Geschichte des Judentums: Mittelalter
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien: Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Heilige & Traditionstexte: Torah, Talmud, Mischna, Halacha

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Note on Translations and Transliteration

Introduction

1 Tanhum Ha-Yerushalmi’s Life and Works

2 Tanhum’s Biblical Exegesis in Context

3 Tanhum’s Commentary to the Book of Jonah

4 Tanhum’s Commentary to Qohelet

5 Tanhum’s Commentary to the Song of Songs

Concluding Remarks

Appendix A: Tanhum Ha-Yerushalmi’s Commentary to the Book of Jonah: Introduction and Esoteric Commentary

Appendix B: Tanhum Ha-Yerushalmi’s Introduction to His Commentary on Qohelet

Appendix C: Tanhum Ha-Yerushalmi’s Introduction to His Commentary to the Song of Songs

Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Raphael Dascalu (PhD, University of Chicago, 2016) is an Adjunct Research Associate at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. His research focuses primarily on medieval Judaeo-Arabic thought and literature.