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Search Scripture Well: Karaite Exegetes and the Origins of the Jewish Bible Commentary in the Islamic East » (BILINGUAL)

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Authors: Allen J. Frank, D. Frank
ISBN-13: 9789004139022, ISBN-10: 9004139028
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers, Inc.
Date Published: June 2004
Edition: BILINGUAL

Author Biography: Allen J. Frank

Daniel Frank, Ph.D. (1991), Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University, is Associate Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at the Ohio State University. His research focuses on Karaism; he has edited The Jews of Medieval Islam (Brill, 1995).

Book Synopsis

This book describes the Karaite contribution to the development of Jewish biblical exegesis in the Islamic East during the tenth century. Comprising a series of linked, thematic studies, it includes extensive selections from manuscript sources in Judeo-Arabic with English translation.

Ch. 1	"Search scripture well"	1
Ch. 2	Unclean birds and tassels : indeterminacy and halakhic exegesis	33
Ch. 3	Interpreting dreams and scriptures	95
Ch. 4	"The voice of the turtledove" : interpreting the song of songs	145
Ch. 5	The Shoshannim and their liturgy : exegesis, prayer, and communal identity	165
Ch. 6	A prophet like Moses : exegesis as religious polemic	204
	Epilogue : on the origins of the Jewish Bible commentary in the Islamic east	248
	Judeo-Arabic texts	259