Black fire on white fire
an essay on Jewish hermeneutics, from midrash to kabbalah
by Betty Rojtman
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Using the tools of contemporary semiotic theory to analyze classical rabbinic hermeneutics and medieval mystical exegesis, Betty Rojtman unveils a striking modernity in these early forms of textual interpretation. Moving through the successive levels of traditional commentary, from early Midrash to modern Kabbalah, Rojtman examines the tension between the fluidity and nuance of the biblical text and the fixed commitment to ideological and theological content.
To examine this strain between open text and sacred language, Rojtman scrutinizes the demonstrative, "this," as a word whose significance changes with every change in context. Her analysis suggests a double-layered meaning for "this," which refers on the one hand to the existential world in its multiplicity and on the other to transcendence and the eternal presence of God.
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Black fire on white fire: an essay on Jewish hermeneutics, from midrash to kabbalah
1998, University of California Press
in English
0520203208 9780520203204
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-190) and index.
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