The intellectual history and rabbinic culture of medieval Ashkenaz [electronic resource] / Ephraim Kanarfogel.
Material type: TextPublication details: Detroit : Wayne State University Press, c2012. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (496 p.)ISBN:- 9780814338025
- 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
- 296.094/0902 23
- BM85.G4 K355 2012
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.
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