The Book of Job in Medieval Jewish Philosophy - Robert Eisen

The Book of Job in Medieval Jewish Philosophy

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Buch | Hardcover
336 Seiten
2004
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-517153-2 (ISBN)
124,70 inkl. MwSt
Analyzes the history of the interpretation of the "Book of Job" by medieval Jewish exegetes. The author offers an examination of commentaries on Job written by six major thinkers. He looks at the relationship between the commentaries and their antecedent sources, as well as their relationship to the broader context of medieval Jewish thought.
This book analyzes the history of the interpretation of the book of Job by medieval Jewish exegetes. The scholarship on medieval Jewish thought has focused largely on the systematic philosophical aspects of this literature. Eisen, however, is concerned with exegesis qua exegesis. He offers a close examination of commentaries on Job written by six major thinkers: Saadiah Goan (882-942, Egypt and Babylon), Moses Maimonides (1138-1204, Spain and Egypt), Samuel ibn Tibbon (1160-1230, Provence), Zerahiah Hen (13th Century, Barcelona and Rome), Levi Gersonides (1288-1344, Provence), and Simeon ben Zeham Duran (1361-1444, Majorca and Algiers). Saadiah and Maimonides wrote in Arabic, the other four in Hebrew. Eisen looks at the relationship between the commentaries and their antecedent sources as well as their relationship to the broader context of medieval Jewish thought. He also provides an overview of the questions the commentators confronted about the historicity, national origin, and "Jewishness" of the text. He argues that the commentaries on Job are linked in a coherent and evolving tradition of interpretation and he identifies various views of providence as the central concern of them all.

Robert Eisen is Associate Professor of Religion and Judaic Studies at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. He is the author of Gersonides on Providence, the Covenant, and the Chosen People: A Study in Medieval Jewish Philosophy and Biblical Commentary (1995).

Erscheint lt. Verlag 30.9.2004
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 244 x 157 mm
Gewicht 626 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie des Mittelalters
Religion / Theologie Christentum Bibelausgaben / Bibelkommentare
Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie Judentum
ISBN-10 0-19-517153-5 / 0195171535
ISBN-13 978-0-19-517153-2 / 9780195171532
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