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Creating Fictional Worlds: Peshaṭ-Exegesis and Narrativity in Rashbam's Commentary on the Torah
Contributor(s): Liss, Hanna (Author)
ISBN: 9004194568     ISBN-13: 9789004194564
Publisher: Brill
OUR PRICE:   $187.15  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: January 2011
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BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Biblical Studies - Old Testament - General
- Religion | Judaism - Theology
Dewey: 222
LCCN: 2010041729
Series: Studies in Jewish History and Culture
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.5" W x 9.6" (1.55 lbs) 332 pages
Themes:
- Religious Orientation - Jewish
 
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Publisher Description:
R. Samuel ben Meir (b. 1085) wrote his Torah commentary at a point in time when the French masters of Bible collected their glossae, but he wrote it also at the point in time that we today consider to be the turning point in 'lay literacy, ' when the Anglo-Norman aristocracy patronized the production of romances. In the first half of the 12th century, Northern France was a vibrant spot. It was an era in which composing, reading, and listening to narratives and stories intensified as a complex cultural phenomenon. This book presents the idea that Rashbam tried to compete with this new intellectual movement, claiming that the literary quality of the biblical texts was at least as good as that of the nascent courtly romances, or even on a par with one another.