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Volume 42 - November 2018

Contents

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Book Reviews: Modern Era

Book Reviews: Medieval and Early Modern Eras

Book Reviews: Modern Era

Book Reviews: Medieval and Early Modern Eras

Book Reviews: Modern Era

Book Reviews: Medieval and Early Modern Eras

Book Reviews: Modern Era

Book Reviews: Medieval and Early Modern Eras

Book Reviews: Modern Era

Abstract of Hebrew Article

  • Rabbi Eliezer Ashkenazi's Commentary on the Garden of Eden Story: Between Exegesis and Religious Thought

  • Michal Ohana
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    30 November 2018, p. 489
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  • This essay investigates Rabbi Eliezer Ashkenazi's commentary on the story of the Garden of Eden, first exploring his method of Bible commentary in general. In his interpretation of the Bible he vehemently distances himself from allegorical interpretation that abandons the plain meaning of the text, and holds that while biblical stories function as allegory (mashal), they all, without exception, actually occurred as written. Ashkenazi's interpretation of the Garden of Eden episode serves as a platform for presenting his thoughts regarding two of the main issues that occupied Jewish thinkers during the Middle Ages and the early modern period: human perfection and the proper balance between the divine Torah and intellectual inquiry. The examination of Ashkenazi's reading of this biblical episode shows that his perspective concurs with that of his colleagues in the Sephardic Diaspora throughout the Ottoman Empire, who identified with the moderate camp of the Sephardic philosophical tradition, which sees man as the purpose of creation and believes Torah study should precede philosophical inquiry.

Book Reviews: Modern Era

Front Cover (OFC, IFC) and matter

  • AJS volume 42 issue 2 Cover and Front matter

  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    30 November 2018, pp. f1-f5
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