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There is a brief discussion of Karaite exegesis by Edward Greenstein in his
chapter on medieval Jewish bible commentaries in "Back to the Sources:
Reading the Classic Jewish Texts" edited by Barry Holtz. There is a fairly
detailed bibliography on exegesis at the end of this chapter but nothing
that explicitly mentions Karaite exegesis.
The entries on Karaites and biblical exegesis in the Oxford Dictionary of
the Jewish Religion also have good bibliographies.
I think you will find that in these discussions the system of exegesis you
describe is also one found in rabbinic forms of Judaism. Herman Hailperin's
"Rashi and the Christian Scholars" is a useful starting point for the topic.
Hope this helps.
Daniel Joslyn-Siemiatkoski
Assistant Professor of Church History
Church Divinity School of the Pacific
2451 Ridge Road
Berkeley, California 94709-1217
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Dear List:
As you know I am interested in the middle ages particularly as it relates to
the
Arab and Muslim world. It is important to remember that this "other middle
ages"
[I think I just coined a useful term!] was made up of various groups besides
Arab Muslims such as the Amazigh [Berber], Turks, Persians, Jews, and Arab
and
Syriac Christians.
I recently have been studying Judeo-Arabic. You will recognize the name
Maimonides as a Jewish writer of the middle ages, but perhaps do not know
that
he wrote in Arabic using the Hebrew writing system. This is called
Judeo-Arabic. There was also a large group of Jews known as Karaites who
also
wrote in Judeo-Arabic. They were almost completely wiped out when the
Crusaders
took Jerusalem.
There is a system of exegesis in the Karaitic writings which have survived
that
seems to parallel the medieval hermeneutic philosophy which saw the text as
having four meanings: sensus historicus, sensus allegoricus, sensus
tropologicus, and sensus anagogicus.
My question is: Can anyone recommend a good book on this topic or any part
of
it? I googled without satisfactory results.
V. Kerry Inman
University of Pennsylvania
"To understand God's thoughts we must study statistics for these are the
measure
of his purpose." --Florence Nightingale
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