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The intellectual history and rabbinic culture of medieval Ashkenaz
- Author / Creator
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Details
- Creator
- Ephraim Kanarfogel
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Detroit : Wayne State University Press, [2012]
- ©2012
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (496 pages)
- data file
- ISBNs
- 9780814338025, 081433802X, 9780814330241
- OCLC
- ocn867739456
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction: regnant perceptions and empirical evidence -- Talmudic and halakhic studies: internal organization and societal models -- Tosafist biblical exegesis in northern France at the end of the twelfth century: between peshat and derash -- The contours of biblical interpretation during the early thirteenth century -- Interpretations for a varied audience through the thirteenth century -- Genres and strategies of piyyut composition among the Tosafists -- Magic and mysticism in Tosafist literature and thought -- Tosafist approaches to matters of belief and the implications for popular culture -- Conclusion: Ashkenazic rabbinic culture in its plenitude
Subjects
- Jewish religious education -- Germany -- History -- To 1500.
- Jewish religious eduction -- France, Northern -- History -- To 1500.
- Jews -- France, Northern -- Intellectual life -- History -- To 1500.
- Jews -- Germany -- Intellectual life -- History -- To 1500.
- Jewish learning and scholarship -- France, Northern -- History -- To 1500.
- Jewish learning and scholarship -- Germany -- History -- To 1500.