Mordechai Z Cohen
Biographic Data
| ID | 1693628 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mordechai Z Cohen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mordechai Z |
| FAMILY NAME | Cohen |
| SIGNATURE | COHEN M Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nebraska Medical Center |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8584-6982 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Abraham Ibn Ezra's "Way of Peshat " in Light of Shifting Christian Conceptions of the Literal Sense
The reputation of Abraham Ibn Ezra (1089 or 1092/93–1164 or 1167) as a key proponent of the peshat ("plain sense") of Scripture has been questioned due to his tendency (1) to adjust his exegesis to conform with rabbinic halakhic (religious-legal) traditions and (2) his philosophical readings, especially in the Psalms. Drawing upon evidence from his own Sefardic intellectual heritage and by analogy with the complexities of the Christian conception…
Rashi, Biblical Interpretation, and Latin Learning in Medieval Europe
In this volume, Mordechai Z. Cohen explores the interpretive methods of Rashi of Troyes (1040–1105), the most influential Jewish Bible commentator of all time. By elucidating the 'plain sense' (peshat) of Scripture, together with critically selected midrashic interpretations, Rashi created an approach that was revolutionary in the talmudically-oriented Ashkenazic milieu. Cohen contextualizes Rashi's commentaries by examining influences from other…
Symptom and Illness Experience for English and Spanish-Speaking Children with Advanced Cancer
Understanding the symptom and illness experience of children with advanced cancer facilitates quality care; yet, obtaining this understanding is complicated by the child's developmental level and physical and psychological health factors that affect communication. The purpose of this study was to describe the symptom and illness experience of English- and Spanish-speaking children with advanced cancer as described by the child and parent. We cond…
Distinguishing Features and Similarities Between Descriptive Phenomenological and Qualitative Description Research
Scholars who research phenomena of concern to the discipline of nursing are challenged with making wise choices about different qualitative research approaches. Ultimately, they want to choose an approach that is best suited to answer their research questions. Such choices are predicated on having made distinctions between qualitative methodology, methods, and analytic frames. In this article, we distinguish two qualitative research approaches wi…
Interpreting Scriptures in Judaism, Christianity and Islam
This comparative study traces Jewish, Christian, and Muslim scriptural interpretation from antiquity to modernity, with special emphasis on the pivotal medieval period. It focuses on three areas: responses in the different faith traditions to tensions created by the need to transplant scriptures into new cultural and linguistic contexts; changing conceptions of the literal sense and its importance vis-à-vis non-literal senses, such as the figurat…
Testing sensory and cognitive explanations of the antisaccade deficit in schizophrenia.
Recent research has suggested that people with schizophrenia (PSZ) have sensory deficits, especially in the magnocellular pathway, and this has led to the proposal that dysfunctional sensory processing may underlie higher-order cognitive deficits. Here we test the hypothesis that the antisaccade deficit in PSZ reflects dysfunctional magnocellular processing rather than impaired cognitive processing, as indexed by working memory capacity. This is …
The Experience of Quality of Life for Caregivers of People With Alzheimer’s Disease Living in Sardinia, Italy
Purpose: This study explored the meaning of quality of life (QOL) for Sardinian caregivers of people affected with Alzheimer’s disease and factors improving and worsening their QOL. Design: The phenomenological method was used to study 41 Alzheimer’s disease caregivers living on the western coast of Sardinia, Italy. Interviews were conducted and analyzed using Cohen, Kahn, and Steeves’s approach. Findings: Extracted themes were the following: uni…
Rashbam Scholarship in Perpetual Motion
Rashbam Scholarship in Perpetual Motion MORDECHAI Z. COHEN Elazar Touitou. Exegesis in Perpetuai Motion: Studied m the Pentateuchal Commentary of Rabbi Samuel ben Mew [Hebrew]. Ramat Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press, 2003. Pp. 283.OVER THE PAST QUARTER CENTURY, Elazar Touitou has substantially enhanced our understanding of the hermeneutics of Rabbi Samuel ben Meir (Rashbam; c. 1080-1160), one of the greatest proponents of the peshal method in the J…
A Recognizable Jewish Type
Journal Article “A Recognizable Jewish Type:” Saul Bellow's Dr Tamkin and Valentine Gersbach as Jewish Social History Get access Mark Cohen Mark Cohen San Francisco [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience, Volume 27, Issue 3, October 2007, Pages 350–373, https://doi.org/10.1093/mj/kjm012 Published: 01 October 2007
Maimonides' Disagreement with 'The Torah' in His Interpretation of Job
M ’ D ‘ T T ’ H I J Maimonides is celebrated in Jewish intellectual history both as a bold in- novator and vigorous champion of rabbinic tradition. The tensions im- plied by this combination emerge in his reading of Job in The Guide of the Perplexed III. - , particularly where he seems to take issue with the Torah itself. Though somewhat of an overstatement, this apparent disagree…
Three Approaches to Biblical Metaphor
This volume explores how the poetic technique of biblical metaphor was analyzed within the Jewish exegetical tradition that developed in Muslim Spain during the Golden Age of Hebrew poetry and was then transplanted to a Christian milieu. Abraham Ibn Ezra and Maimonides applied concepts from Arabic poetics, hermeneutics and logic to define metaphor and interpret it within their philological-literary readings of Scripture. David Kimhi integrated th…
A Poet's Biblical Exegesis
Logic to Interpretation
Maimonides ‘interests in language and interpretation converge in the exegetical sections of his Guide of the Perplexed, in which he often invokes the notion of metaphor (Ar. isti c âra; Hebr. hash’alah), a concept defined in various ways by different intellectual streams current in his day. Two parallel models of metaphor emerged in the so-called logical tradition of Arabic learning and Quranic hermeneutics, while a completely different one was f…
Hermeneutic Phenomenological Research
Introduction - Marlene Z Cohen Writing the Proposal - Marlene Z Cohen How to Start Fieldwork - Richard H Steeves Ethical Issues and Ethical Approval - Marlene Z Cohen Sampling - Richard H Steeves How to Conduct Research - David L Kahn How to Analyze the Data - Marlene Z Cohen et al Reducing Bias - David L Kahn Writing the Results - Richard H Steeves
Multimeasure Pain Assessment in an Ethnically Diverse Group of Patients with Cancer
The purposes of this study were (a) to describe the relationship between pain perception and ethnic identity and socioeconomic status, (b) to evaluate the intercorrelations between pain measures in different ethnic groups, and (c) to determine whether ethnicity or socioeconomic status influences patient’s pain control beliefs and satisfaction with the pain management provided. The sample consisted of 51 English-, Korean-, or Spanish-speaking part…
Explanatory models of diabetes
Families in Critical Care Settings
Sarah Hargrove1 is a 40-year-old grocery store clerk who has had asthma for a number of years. This attack, the most severe she has ever had, began with a viral infection which progressed until she had so much difficulty breathing that her husband took her to the emergency room of a small local hospi tal. The local hospital admitted her but later decided to transport her by helicopter to a large teaching hospital 60 miles away
A Test of the Relationship between Stress and Primary Representational Systems
This study tested the association between the level of job stress and the number of representational systems in strategies reportedly used to cope with job stress. Contrary to the theory of Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP), these data indicated a significantly larger number of representational systems. They also reported more coping strategies
A Test of the Relationship between Stress and Primary Representational Systems
This study tested the association between the level of job stress and the number of representational systems in strategies reportedly used to cope with job stress. Contrary to the theory of Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP), these data indicated a significantly larger number of representational systems. They also reported more coping strategies
Families in Critical Care Settings
Sarah Hargrove1 is a 40-year-old grocery store clerk who has had asthma for a number of years. This attack, the most severe she has ever had, began with a viral infection which progressed until she had so much difficulty breathing that her husband took her to the emergency room of a small local hospi tal. The local hospital admitted her but later decided to transport her by helicopter to a large teaching hospital 60 miles away
Explanatory models of diabetes
Multimeasure Pain Assessment in an Ethnically Diverse Group of Patients with Cancer
The purposes of this study were (a) to describe the relationship between pain perception and ethnic identity and socioeconomic status, (b) to evaluate the intercorrelations between pain measures in different ethnic groups, and (c) to determine whether ethnicity or socioeconomic status influences patient’s pain control beliefs and satisfaction with the pain management provided. The sample consisted of 51 English-, Korean-, or Spanish-speaking part…
Hermeneutic Phenomenological Research
Introduction - Marlene Z Cohen Writing the Proposal - Marlene Z Cohen How to Start Fieldwork - Richard H Steeves Ethical Issues and Ethical Approval - Marlene Z Cohen Sampling - Richard H Steeves How to Conduct Research - David L Kahn How to Analyze the Data - Marlene Z Cohen et al Reducing Bias - David L Kahn Writing the Results - Richard H Steeves
Logic to Interpretation
Maimonides ‘interests in language and interpretation converge in the exegetical sections of his Guide of the Perplexed, in which he often invokes the notion of metaphor (Ar. isti c âra; Hebr. hash’alah), a concept defined in various ways by different intellectual streams current in his day. Two parallel models of metaphor emerged in the so-called logical tradition of Arabic learning and Quranic hermeneutics, while a completely different one was f…
Three Approaches to Biblical Metaphor
This volume explores how the poetic technique of biblical metaphor was analyzed within the Jewish exegetical tradition that developed in Muslim Spain during the Golden Age of Hebrew poetry and was then transplanted to a Christian milieu. Abraham Ibn Ezra and Maimonides applied concepts from Arabic poetics, hermeneutics and logic to define metaphor and interpret it within their philological-literary readings of Scripture. David Kimhi integrated th…
A Poet's Biblical Exegesis
Maimonides' Disagreement with 'The Torah' in His Interpretation of Job
M ’ D ‘ T T ’ H I J Maimonides is celebrated in Jewish intellectual history both as a bold in- novator and vigorous champion of rabbinic tradition. The tensions im- plied by this combination emerge in his reading of Job in The Guide of the Perplexed III. - , particularly where he seems to take issue with the Torah itself. Though somewhat of an overstatement, this apparent disagree…
A Recognizable Jewish Type
Journal Article “A Recognizable Jewish Type:” Saul Bellow's Dr Tamkin and Valentine Gersbach as Jewish Social History Get access Mark Cohen Mark Cohen San Francisco [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience, Volume 27, Issue 3, October 2007, Pages 350–373, https://doi.org/10.1093/mj/kjm012 Published: 01 October 2007
Rashbam Scholarship in Perpetual Motion
Rashbam Scholarship in Perpetual Motion MORDECHAI Z. COHEN Elazar Touitou. Exegesis in Perpetuai Motion: Studied m the Pentateuchal Commentary of Rabbi Samuel ben Mew [Hebrew]. Ramat Gan: Bar-Ilan University Press, 2003. Pp. 283.OVER THE PAST QUARTER CENTURY, Elazar Touitou has substantially enhanced our understanding of the hermeneutics of Rabbi Samuel ben Meir (Rashbam; c. 1080-1160), one of the greatest proponents of the peshal method in the J…
The Experience of Quality of Life for Caregivers of People With Alzheimer’s Disease Living in Sardinia, Italy
Purpose: This study explored the meaning of quality of life (QOL) for Sardinian caregivers of people affected with Alzheimer’s disease and factors improving and worsening their QOL. Design: The phenomenological method was used to study 41 Alzheimer’s disease caregivers living on the western coast of Sardinia, Italy. Interviews were conducted and analyzed using Cohen, Kahn, and Steeves’s approach. Findings: Extracted themes were the following: uni…
Testing sensory and cognitive explanations of the antisaccade deficit in schizophrenia.
Recent research has suggested that people with schizophrenia (PSZ) have sensory deficits, especially in the magnocellular pathway, and this has led to the proposal that dysfunctional sensory processing may underlie higher-order cognitive deficits. Here we test the hypothesis that the antisaccade deficit in PSZ reflects dysfunctional magnocellular processing rather than impaired cognitive processing, as indexed by working memory capacity. This is …
Distinguishing Features and Similarities Between Descriptive Phenomenological and Qualitative Description Research
Scholars who research phenomena of concern to the discipline of nursing are challenged with making wise choices about different qualitative research approaches. Ultimately, they want to choose an approach that is best suited to answer their research questions. Such choices are predicated on having made distinctions between qualitative methodology, methods, and analytic frames. In this article, we distinguish two qualitative research approaches wi…
Interpreting Scriptures in Judaism, Christianity and Islam
This comparative study traces Jewish, Christian, and Muslim scriptural interpretation from antiquity to modernity, with special emphasis on the pivotal medieval period. It focuses on three areas: responses in the different faith traditions to tensions created by the need to transplant scriptures into new cultural and linguistic contexts; changing conceptions of the literal sense and its importance vis-à-vis non-literal senses, such as the figurat…
Rashi, Biblical Interpretation, and Latin Learning in Medieval Europe
In this volume, Mordechai Z. Cohen explores the interpretive methods of Rashi of Troyes (1040–1105), the most influential Jewish Bible commentator of all time. By elucidating the 'plain sense' (peshat) of Scripture, together with critically selected midrashic interpretations, Rashi created an approach that was revolutionary in the talmudically-oriented Ashkenazic milieu. Cohen contextualizes Rashi's commentaries by examining influences from other…
Symptom and Illness Experience for English and Spanish-Speaking Children with Advanced Cancer
Understanding the symptom and illness experience of children with advanced cancer facilitates quality care; yet, obtaining this understanding is complicated by the child's developmental level and physical and psychological health factors that affect communication. The purpose of this study was to describe the symptom and illness experience of English- and Spanish-speaking children with advanced cancer as described by the child and parent. We cond…
Abraham Ibn Ezra's "Way of Peshat " in Light of Shifting Christian Conceptions of the Literal Sense
The reputation of Abraham Ibn Ezra (1089 or 1092/93–1164 or 1167) as a key proponent of the peshat ("plain sense") of Scripture has been questioned due to his tendency (1) to adjust his exegesis to conform with rabbinic halakhic (religious-legal) traditions and (2) his philosophical readings, especially in the Psalms. Drawing upon evidence from his own Sefardic intellectual heritage and by analogy with the complexities of the Christian conception…
Philosophy (11 works) · Art (10 works) · Literature (9 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Historical and Linguistic Studies (7 works) · Linguistics (7 works) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation (6 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Theology (6 works) · History (5 works)