medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
An overview with bibliography can be found in
Daniel Frank, "Karaite Exegesis," in _Hebrew Bible / Old Testament:
The History of Its Interpretation_ I/2, edited by Magne Sæbø, pp.
110-28 (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2000).
There are several other essays in the volume which would also most
likely be of interest.
--Jonathan
On 15 Aug 2007, at 5:55 PM, V. Kerry Inman wrote:
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and
> culture
>
> 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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