Book contents
- Rashi, Biblical Interpretation, and Latin Learning in Medieval Europe
- Rashi, Biblical Interpretation, and Latin Learning in Medieval Europe
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 A New Program of Peshat (“Plain Sense” Exegesis)
- 2 “Settling” the Words of Scripture Using Midrash
- 3 St. Bruno on Psalms: Precedent for Rashi?
- 4 Comparison to the Andalusian Exegetical School
- 5 Comparison to the Byzantine Exegetical School
- 6 Rashi’s Literary Sensibilities and Latin Grammatica
- 7 Rashi’s Notion of “the Poet” (ha-Meshorer) in the Latin Context
- 8 Joseph Qara and Rashbam: Peshat Legacy in Northern France
- 9 Literary Sensibilities of Peshat within a Latin Context
- Bibliography
- General Index
- Index of Scriptural References
- Index of Rabbinic Sources
4 - Comparison to the Andalusian Exegetical School
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 April 2021
- Rashi, Biblical Interpretation, and Latin Learning in Medieval Europe
- Rashi, Biblical Interpretation, and Latin Learning in Medieval Europe
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 A New Program of Peshat (“Plain Sense” Exegesis)
- 2 “Settling” the Words of Scripture Using Midrash
- 3 St. Bruno on Psalms: Precedent for Rashi?
- 4 Comparison to the Andalusian Exegetical School
- 5 Comparison to the Byzantine Exegetical School
- 6 Rashi’s Literary Sensibilities and Latin Grammatica
- 7 Rashi’s Notion of “the Poet” (ha-Meshorer) in the Latin Context
- 8 Joseph Qara and Rashbam: Peshat Legacy in Northern France
- 9 Literary Sensibilities of Peshat within a Latin Context
- Bibliography
- General Index
- Index of Scriptural References
- Index of Rabbinic Sources
Summary
Much as the long-accepted view that Rashi was intellectually isolated from his Latin milieu in northern France has been challenged in the last two decades of the twentieth century, recent scholarship calls for reconsideration of the earlier tendency to minimize the cultural ties between the Ashkenazic community and Jews in Muslim lands during the eleventh century. Increasing evidence points to continuous trade among Jewish centers in Christian and Muslim lands, especially between the Rhineland, where Rashi studied, and Byzantium, al-Andalus, North Africa, and Iraq. It probably was along one of these routes that the Babylonian Talmud and the teachings of the Geonim first came to the Rhineland. Based on indications that Rashi had access to Jewish learning in Muslim lands, Avraham Grossman has argued that a key impetus for Rashi’s peshat revolution was his awareness of the Judeo-Arabic peshat tradition that had reached maturity in al-Andalus by the eleventh century. The current chapter aims to evaluate that theory.
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- Rashi, Biblical Interpretation, and Latin Learning in Medieval EuropeA New Perspective on an Exegetical Revolution, pp. 102 - 133Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021