Michael Fishbane
Biographic Data
| ID | 1423802 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Fishbane |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Fishbane |
| SIGNATURE | FISHBANE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brandeis University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Jewish Biblical Interpretation: Medieval and Modern: Collected Essays II
Following his first wide-ranging collection on biblical text and exegetical culture, Michael Fishbane supplements his previous investigations with this second volume of collected writings. It includes close studies in medieval Jewish liturgical poetry, Jewish biblical exegesis (plain sense, allegorical sense, philosophical and mystical senses), and modern Jewish thought (traditional, especially Hasidic, literature as well as modern Jewish theolog…
Biblical Text and Exegetical Culture: Collected Essays
In this wide-ranging collection, Michael Fishbane investigates the complex and diverse relationships between the 'biblical text' and 'exegetical culture.' The author demonstrates the multiple literary dimensions and interpretative strategies that came to form the Hebrew Bible in the context of the ancient Near East, the Dead Sea Scrolls in the context of an emergent biblical-Jewish culture, and the classical rabbinic Midrash in the context of an …
Spiritual Pedagogy and Rhetoric in a Ḥasidic Homily: The Maʾor va-Shemesh on Parshat Qedoshim
A close analysis of a Ḥasidic homily by R. Kalonymos Kalman Epstein of Krakow, author of Maʾor va-Shemesh . The essay focuses on rhetoric, structure, and thematic content. The role of hermeneutics is engaged throughout
In Response
Ethics and Sacred Attunement
Textuality and Subsurface Traditions
T H E JE W I S H Q UA R T E R LY R E V I E W, Vol. 94, No. 1 (Winter 2004) 3–5 Textuality and Subsurface Traditions MICHAEL F ISHBANE MY LIFE IN SCHOLARSHIP has been marked by an intellectual and personal obsession with the textuality of cultures—beginning with their foundational expressions, as articulated both within and against alien forms; their new creation of textual habitats, so that diverse cultural identities could be shaped and re-forme…
Biblical Myth and Rabbinic Mythmaking
This book aims to retrieve, study, and reconstruct the phenomenon of monotheistic myth over the course of two millennia, from its first literary articulations in the Hebrew Bible to mythmaking in classic rabbinic Midrash and the medieval Kabbalistic book of Zohar. Several paradigmatic configurations are isolated and used to explore the characters and construction of monotheistic myth sources, and patterns of thermatic continuity and transformatio…
The Exegetical Imagination: On Jewish Thought and Theology
To Jump for Joy: The Rites of Dance According to R. Nahman of Bratzlav
The Midrashic Process. Irving Jacobs
Depiction and Interpretation: The Influence of the Holocaust on the Visual Arts. Ziva Amishai-Maisels
Shaʿarei Talmon: Studies in the Bible, Qumran, and the Ancient Near East Presented to Shemaryahu Talmon
The Midrashic Imagination: Jewish Exegesis, Thought, and History
Myth and Symbol: Symbolism in Prehistoric Religions. Ariel Golan
Hasidic Responses to the Holocaust in the Light of Hasidic Thought . Pesach Schindler
The Meaning of Jewish Existence: Theological Essays, 1930-39 . Alexander Altmann , Alfred L. Ivry
Ancient Jewish Epitaphs: An Introductory Survey of a Millennium of Jewish Funerary Epigraphy (300 BCE-700 CE) . P. W. van der Horst
Mystical Prayer in Ancient Judaism: An Analysis of Ma'aseh Merkavah . Michael D. Swartz
The Savage in Judaism: Anthropology of Israelite Religion and Ancient Judaism. Howard Eilberg-Schwartz
“The Holy One Sits and Roars”: Mythopoesis and the Midrashic imagination
Religion, Science, and Magic: In Concert and in Conflict . Jacob Neusner , Ernest S. Frerichs , Paul Virgil McCracken Flesher
Biblical Interpretation in Ancient Israel
Part 1 Scribal comments and corrections: the role of scribes in the transmission of biblical literature lexical and explicative comments pious revisions and theological addenda. Part 2 Legal exegesis: the scope and content of biblical law as a factor in the emergence of exegesis legal exegesis with verbatim, paraphrastic, or pseudo-citations in historical sources legal exegesis with covert citations in historical sources legal exegesis and explic…
Biblical Interpretation in Ancient Israel
Ezekiel 1-20. A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary . Moshe Greenberg
Book Notices
Journal Article Book Notices Get access Poetics and Interpretation of Biblical Narrative. By Adele Berlin. The Almond Press, 1983 180 pages $22.95. Cloth; $10.95 paper. Michael Fishbane Michael Fishbane Brandeis University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LIII, Issue 2, June 1985, Pages 291-a–291, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/LIII.2.291-a Published: 01 J…
Ethics and Sacred Attunement
Form and Reformulation of the Biblical Priestly Blessing
Michael Fishbane, Form and Reformulation of the Biblical Priestly Blessing, Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 103, No. 1, Studies in Literature from the Ancient Near East, by Members of the American Oriental Society, Dedicated to Samuel Noah Kramer (Jan. - Mar., 1983), pp. 115-121
Composition and Structure in the Jacob Cycle (Gen. 25: (19-35:22)
The Teacher and the Hermeneutical Task: A Reinterpretation of Medieval Exegesis
The Teacher and the Hermeneutical Task: A Reinterpretation of Medieval Exegesis MICHAEL FISHBANE MICHAEL FISHBANE MICHAEL FISHBANE is Associate Professor of Biblical Studies at Brandeis University He has also taught at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he was a Lady Davis Fellow during 1974–75 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume XLIII, Issue 4, Decemb…
An Analysis of Vatican 30
Religions of Western Antiquity
Journal Article RELIGIONS OF WESTERN ANTIQUITY Get access The Jewish People in the First Century, Volume Two. (Compendia Rerum Iudicarum ad Novum Testamentum, Section One). Edited by S. Safrai and M. Stern. Philadelphia. Fortress Press, 1976, 722 pages. $32.50. L. C. No. 74-75908. Michael Fishbane Michael Fishbane Brandeis University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religi…
A Theology of Exile; Judgment/Deliverance in Jeremiah and Ezekiel
Prophecy and Canon: A Contribution to the Study of Jewish Origins
Text and Texture. Close Readings of Selected Biblical Texts
Ancient Near Eastern Studies
Journal Article ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN STUDIES Get access Pottery, Poetry, and Prophecy Studies in Early Hebrew Poetry By David Noel Freedman Winona Lake, IN Eisenbrauns, 1980 xiii+376 pages, indices $15.00 ISBN 0-931464-04-8 Michael Fishbane Michael Fishbane Brandeis University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume L, Issue 1, March 1982, Pages 112–113, https://…
Form and Reformulation of the Biblical Priestly Blessing
Michael Fishbane, Form and Reformulation of the Biblical Priestly Blessing, Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 103, No. 1, Studies in Literature from the Ancient Near East, by Members of the American Oriental Society, Dedicated to Samuel Noah Kramer (Jan. - Mar., 1983), pp. 115-121
Governmental and Judicial Ethics in the Bible and Rabbinic Literature . James E. Priest
Narrative Art and Poetry in the Books of Samuel: A Full Interpretation Based on Stylistic and Structural Analysis. Vol. I: King David (II Sam. 9-20 & I Kings 1-2)
Book Notices
Journal Article Book Notices Get access Poetics and Interpretation of Biblical Narrative. By Adele Berlin. The Almond Press, 1983 180 pages $22.95. Cloth; $10.95 paper. Michael Fishbane Michael Fishbane Brandeis University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LIII, Issue 2, June 1985, Pages 291-a–291, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/LIII.2.291-a Published: 01 J…
The Israelian Heritage of Judaism
Ezekiel 1-20. A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary . Moshe Greenberg
Biblical Interpretation in Ancient Israel
Biblical Interpretation in Ancient Israel
Part 1 Scribal comments and corrections: the role of scribes in the transmission of biblical literature lexical and explicative comments pious revisions and theological addenda. Part 2 Legal exegesis: the scope and content of biblical law as a factor in the emergence of exegesis legal exegesis with verbatim, paraphrastic, or pseudo-citations in historical sources legal exegesis with covert citations in historical sources legal exegesis and explic…
Religion, Science, and Magic: In Concert and in Conflict . Jacob Neusner , Ernest S. Frerichs , Paul Virgil McCracken Flesher
“The Holy One Sits and Roars”: Mythopoesis and the Midrashic imagination
Hasidic Responses to the Holocaust in the Light of Hasidic Thought . Pesach Schindler
The Meaning of Jewish Existence: Theological Essays, 1930-39 . Alexander Altmann , Alfred L. Ivry
Ancient Jewish Epitaphs: An Introductory Survey of a Millennium of Jewish Funerary Epigraphy (300 BCE-700 CE) . P. W. van der Horst
Mystical Prayer in Ancient Judaism: An Analysis of Ma'aseh Merkavah . Michael D. Swartz
The Savage in Judaism: Anthropology of Israelite Religion and Ancient Judaism. Howard Eilberg-Schwartz
Myth and Symbol: Symbolism in Prehistoric Religions. Ariel Golan
Shaʿarei Talmon: Studies in the Bible, Qumran, and the Ancient Near East Presented to Shemaryahu Talmon
Biblical Studies and Interpretation (30 works) · Philosophy (25 works) · Art (24 works) · History (17 works) · Archaeology and Historical Studies (15 works) · Theology (14 works) · Literature (13 works) · Computer Science (12 works) · Historical and Linguistic Studies (12 works) · Judaism (11 works)