Twelfth Century Literal Bible Commentaries

Comparing Jewish and Christian

Bibliographic Data

ID4299770
AuthorsDevorah Schoenfeld (Loyola University Chicago, corresponding author)
Year2013
Volume7
Issue12
Pages509-516
Publication date2013-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueReligion Compass (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1749-8171 • E-ISSN: 1749-8171
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/rec3.12090
OpenAlexW1580326709
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited15

In the twelfth century, both Jewish and Christian Bible commentators began to emphasize literal, or historical, or contextual, approaches to interpreting scripture. These commentators wrote predominantly line-by-line commentaries that focused the reader's attention on linguistic questions in the biblical text. There was also a renewed interest in seeing the Bible in its own terms rather than exclusively through the lens of earlier midrashic or patristic commentaries, although those continued to play an important role. These developments happened at the same time for both Christian and Jewish scholars, who were often in conversation with each other about how to interpret the Bible

Art · Conversation · Exegesis · Judaism · Linguistics · Literature · Theology · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · Byzantine Studies and History · Historical and Linguistic Studies · Philosophy

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