With reverence for the word : medieval scriptural exegesis in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam / edited by Jane Dammen McAuliffe, Barry D. Walfish, Joseph W. Goering.
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Table of Contents:
- Medieval Jewish exegesis of the Bible. Introduction to medieval Jewish Biblical interpretation / Barry D. Walfish
- Search for truth in sacred scripture : Jews, Christians, and the authority to interpret / Stephen D. Benin
- Tension between literal interpretation and exegetical freedom : comparative observations on Saadia's method / Haggai Ben-Shammai
- Karaite commentaries on the Song of Songs from tenth-century Jerusalem / Daniel Frank
- Restoring the narrative : Jewish and Christian exegesis in the twelfth century / Michael A. Signer
- Rashbam as a "literary" exegete / Martin Lockshin
- Asceticism and eroticism in medieval Jewish philosophical and mystical exegesis of the Song of Songs / Elliot R. Wolfson
- Typology, narrative, and history : Isaac ben Joseph ha-Kohen on the Book of Ruth / Barry D. Walfish
- Method of doubts : problematizing the Bible in late medieval Jewish exegesis / Marc Saperstein
- Introducing scripture : the Accessus ad auctores in Hebrew exegetical literature from the thirteenth through the fifteenth centuries / Eric Lawee
- On the social role of Biblical interpretation : the case of Proverbs 22:6 / Alan Cooper
- Medieval Christian exegesis of the Bible. Introduction to medieval Christian Biblical interpretation / Joseph W. Goering
- Letter of the law : Carolingian exegetes and the Old Testament / Abigail Firey
- Four "senses" and four exegetes / Edward Synan
- Laudat sensum et significationem : Robert Grosseteste on the four senses of scripture / James R. Ginther
- Beryl Smalley, Thomas of Cantimpré, and the performative reading of scripture : a study of two exempla / Robert Sweetman
- Theological character of the scholastic "division of the text" with particular reference to the commentaries of Saint Thomas Aquinas / John F. Boyle
- Thomas of Ireland and his De tribus sensibus sacrae scripturae / Édouard Jeauneau
- Material swords and literal lights : the status of allegory in William of Ockham's Breviloquium on Papal power / A.J. Minnis
- Medieval exegesis of the Qurʼān. Introduction to medieval interpretation of the Qurʼān / Jane Dammen McAuliffe
- Discussion and debate in early commentaries of the Qurʼān / Fred Leemhuis
- Weaknesses in the arguments for the early dating of Qurʼānic commentary / Herbert Berg
- Scriptural "senses" in medieval Ṣūfī Qurʼān exegesis / Gerhard Böwering
- Are there allegories in Ṣūfī Qurʼān interpretation? / Hava Lazarus-Yafeh
- From the Sacred Mosque to the Remote Temple : Sūrat al-Isrāʼ between text and commentary / Angelika Neuwirth
- Qurʼānic exegesis and history / Gerald Hawting
- Self-referentiality of the Qurʼān : Sura 3:7 as an exegetical challenge / Stefan Wild
- Designation of "foreign" languages in the exegesis of the Qurʼān / Andrew Rippin
- Genre boundaries of Qurʼānic commentary / Jane Dammen McAuliffe.