Halakhic Hermeneutics
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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.'
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Product details
| Published | 29 Apr 2003 |
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| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 328 |
| ISBN | 9781461682059 |
| Imprint | University Press of America |
| Series | Studies in Judaism |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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