Study of the Bible
Medieval W. Christendom
- Introduction
- Images
- Hebrew Bible, Fourteenth-Century Southern France or Northern Spain
- Hebrew Bible, Fifteenth Century Spain
- Hebrew Bible, Late-Fifteenth-Century Spain
- Illuminated Page from Thirteenth-Century German Manuscript of Rashi Commentary on Torah
- Illuminated Page from Thirteenth-Century German Manuscript of Rashi Commentary on Daniel
- Opening Page of Fifteenth-Century Italian Printing of Ramban’s Commentary on Torah
- Pages of Fifteenth-Century Italian Printing of Ralbag’s Commentary on Torah
- Primary Texts
- Introduction of Abraham ibn Ezra to Commentary on the Torah
- Commentary of Abraham ibn Ezra to Gen. 22-1-2
- Commentary of R. David Kimhi to Gen. 22-1-2
- Commentary of R. Solomon ben Isaac (Rashi) to Gen. 22-1-2
- Introduction of R. Samuel ben Meir (Rashbam) to the Torah
- Commentary of Rashbam to Gen. 22-1-2
- Introduction of R. Moses ben Nahman (Nahmanides) to Commentary on the Torah
- Commentary of Nahmanides to Gen. 22-1-2
- Secondary Literature
- N. M. Sarna, “Hebrew and Bible Studies in Medieval Spain,” The Sephardi Heritage, ed. R. D. Barnett (New York- Ktav, 1971), 323-366 .
- A. Grossman, “Biblical Exegesis in Spain during the 13th-15 th Centuries,” in Moreshet Sepharad, ed. H. Beinart (Jerusalem- Magnes Press, 1992), 137-146.
- N. M. Sarna, “Abraham ibn Ezra as an Exegete,” Rabbi Abraham ibn Ezra- Studies in the Writings of a Twelfth-Century Polymath (Cambridge MA- Harvard University Press, 1993), 1-27.
- F. Talmage, David Kimhi, the Man and the Commentaries (Cambridge MA- Harvard University Press, 1975).
- M. Banitt, Rashi- Interpreter of the Biblical Letter (Tel Aviv- Tel Aviv University, 1985).
- M. Lockshin, “Rashbam as a ‘Literary’ Exegete,” With Reverence for the Word- Medieval Scriptural Exegesis in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, ed. J. McAuliffe et al. (Oxford- Oxford University Press, 2003) 83-91.
- E. Kanarfogel, “On the Role of Bible Study in Medieval Ashkenaz,” The Frank Talmage Memorial Volume, ed. B. Walfish (2 vols.; Haifa- Haifa University Press, 1992-3) 1-151-166.
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