István Czachesz

Ronit Nikolsky

Frederick S. Tappenden

Tamás Biró

What role do texts play in religious practice? What is the relationship between these texts and cognition? Are some texts more successful because they are better adapted to our cognitive structures? Why is biblical interpretation necessary, and what is the cognitive process behind it? This book considers such questions, and fills the gap in research on religious texts and narratives in the cognitive science of religion. The study of ancient religions and biblical studies are dominated by textual evidence. However, the cognitive science of religion is lacking significant research on the language and textual interpretation of this literature. This book presents a systematic attempt to redefine the interpretation of religious texts in a cognitive framework, providing concrete textual analysis on a broad selection of biblical passages. It explores the ways that cognitive approaches to language and textual interpretation expand the disciplines of the cognitive science of religion and biblical studies. This book brings together methodology from the cognitive sciences, linguistics, philology, biblical studies, and religious studies, to offer a new perspective for biblical studies and cognitive sciences. It presents a renewed vision of textual interpretation - one that aligns hermeneutical reflection with our cognitive capacities.

Interpreting Minds

Language, Cognition, and Biblical Exegesis

Tal Ilan

Lorena Miralles Maciá

Die rabbinische Literatur umfasst die Mischna und den Talmud, welche den zweiten Kanon des Judentums bilden und zwischen 200 und 800 n. d. Z. in Palästina und Mesopotamien verfasst wurden, sowie zahlreiche exegetische Kommentare oder Midraschim. Grundlage dieser Heiligen Schriften ist die Hebräische Bibel. Häufig bezieht sich die Literatur der Weisen auch auf biblische Frauen und biblische Gender-Konzepte. Die Beiträge des Bandes untersuchen unter Einbezug neuester Forschungserkenntnisse, wie biblische Frauen und biblische Gender-Vorstellungen in diesem umfangreichen Literaturkorpus dargestellt, bearbeitet und neu konzipiert wurden.

Rabbinische Literatur

Lorena Miralles-Maciá Miralles-Maciá

This volume in the Bible and Women series is devoted to rabbinic literature from late Jewish antiquity to the early Middle Ages. Fifteen contributions feature different approaches to the question of biblical women and gender and encompass a wide variety of rabbinic corpora, including the Mishnah-Tosefta, halakhic and aggadic midrashim, Talmud, and late midrash. Some essays analyze biblical law and gender relations as they are reflected in the rabbinic sages’ argumentation, while others examine either the rabbinic portrayal of a certain woman or a group of women or the role of biblical women in a specific rabbinic context. Contributors include Judith R. Baskin, Yuval Blankovsky, Alexander A. Dubrau, Cecilia Haendler, Tal Ilan, Gail Labovitz, Moshe Lavee, Lorena Miralles-Maciá, Ronit Nikolsky, Susanne Plietzsch, Natalie C. Polzer, Olga I. Ruiz-Morell, Devora Steinmetz, Christiane Hannah Tzuberi, and Dvora Weisberg.

Ronit Nikolsky

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