- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Introduction. The Role of Scribes in the Transmission of Biblical Literature
- 2 Lexical and Explicative Comments
- 3 Pious Revisions and Theological Addenda
- 4 Conclusions
- 5 Introduction. The Scope and Content of Biblical Law as a Factor in the Emergence of Exegesis
- 6 Legal Exegesis With Verbatim, Paraphrastic, or Pseudocitations in Historical Sources
- 7 Legal Exegesis With Covert Citations in Historical Sources
- 8 Legal Exegesis and Explication in the Pentateuchal Legal Corpora
- 9 Conclusions
- 10 Introduction. Preliminary Considerations
- 11 Aggadic Exegesis of Legal Traditions in the Prophetic Literature
- 12 Aggadic Transformations of Non‐Legal Pentateuchal Traditions
- 13 Aggadic Exegesis in the Historiographical Literature
- 14 Conclusions
- 15 Introduction. The Shape and Nature of Mantological Material as Factors for Exegesis
- 16 The Mantological Exegesis of Dreams, Visions, and Omens
- 17 The Mantological Exegesis of Oracles
- 18 Generic Transformations
- 19 Conclusions
- 20 Epilogue
- 21 Addenda
- Select Bibliography
- Glossary of Biblical Exegetic Terms and Expressions
- Analytical Index of Contents and Authors*
- Index of Scriptural and Other Sources
- II. Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha
- III. Dead Dea Scrolls
- IV. Targumic Material
- V. Rabbinic Literature (Mishna, Tosephta, Babylonian and Jerusalem Talmuds)
- VI. Other Rabbinic Works
- VII. Selected Ancient Near Eastern Texts
Legal Exegesis and Explication in the Pentateuchal Legal Corpora
Legal Exegesis and Explication in the Pentateuchal Legal Corpora
- Chapter:
- (p.163) 8 Legal Exegesis and Explication in the Pentateuchal Legal Corpora
- Source:
- Biblical Interpretation in Ancient Israel
- Author(s):
Michael Fishbane (Contributor Webpage)
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Provides a detailed consideration of legal exegesis and explication in the pentateuchal legal corpora. It begins with an exposition of these corpora and the conditions that are condition interpretation. The types of exegesis found in these sources are explications and glosses; legal expansions with introductory formulas indicating analogy or similarity (e.g. ‘like’ or ‘also’); without introductory formulas (but involving interpolations and explications in parallel sources); legal restrictions with introductory formulas (e.g. ‘however’). A broad range of types from the civil and religious law are adduced. Also considered are types of legal comparisons, introduced with formulas (e.g. ‘like the rule’ or ‘just as...so’); as well as comparison of cases without formulas (involving the careful comparison of similar rules). Finally, the exegetical recombination of legal rules is considered. Altogether, a vast exegetical enterprise of revision and analysis is documented.
Keywords: analogy, comparison, expansions, explication, formulary, legal exegesis, restrictions
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Introduction. The Role of Scribes in the Transmission of Biblical Literature
- 2 Lexical and Explicative Comments
- 3 Pious Revisions and Theological Addenda
- 4 Conclusions
- 5 Introduction. The Scope and Content of Biblical Law as a Factor in the Emergence of Exegesis
- 6 Legal Exegesis With Verbatim, Paraphrastic, or Pseudocitations in Historical Sources
- 7 Legal Exegesis With Covert Citations in Historical Sources
- 8 Legal Exegesis and Explication in the Pentateuchal Legal Corpora
- 9 Conclusions
- 10 Introduction. Preliminary Considerations
- 11 Aggadic Exegesis of Legal Traditions in the Prophetic Literature
- 12 Aggadic Transformations of Non‐Legal Pentateuchal Traditions
- 13 Aggadic Exegesis in the Historiographical Literature
- 14 Conclusions
- 15 Introduction. The Shape and Nature of Mantological Material as Factors for Exegesis
- 16 The Mantological Exegesis of Dreams, Visions, and Omens
- 17 The Mantological Exegesis of Oracles
- 18 Generic Transformations
- 19 Conclusions
- 20 Epilogue
- 21 Addenda
- Select Bibliography
- Glossary of Biblical Exegetic Terms and Expressions
- Analytical Index of Contents and Authors*
- Index of Scriptural and Other Sources
- II. Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha
- III. Dead Dea Scrolls
- IV. Targumic Material
- V. Rabbinic Literature (Mishna, Tosephta, Babylonian and Jerusalem Talmuds)
- VI. Other Rabbinic Works
- VII. Selected Ancient Near Eastern Texts
