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This book presents an inductive account, through systematic inquiry into data, of the hermeneutics of the principal documents of Rabbinic Judaism. It undertakes a hypothetical-logical reconstruction of the thought-processes that generated the category-formations of the Halakhah, that is, the exegesis of the hermeneutics of Halakhic exegesis. To do so, Neusner asks whether a determinate theory of interpretation guides the sages in their exposition of the topics, the category-formations, of Rabbinic Judaism in the documents that expound those formations. His answer is, a hermeneutics of comparison and contrast yielding a hierarchical classification of data governs the selection of data and the interpretation thereof for the entire corpus of category-formations of the Halakhah. Hence 'Halakhic hermeneutics' here bears the primary meaning, 'a hermeneutics of analogical-contrastive analysis.'

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Book category Books in English Humanities Religion & beliefs Aspects of religion (non-Christian)

• Full title: Halakhic Hermeneutics
• Author: Jacob Neusner
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 328
• EAN: 9780761825289
• ISBN: 0761825282
• ID: 04912897
• Publisher: University Press of America
• Weight: 644 g
• Dimensions: 236 × 156 × 25 mm
• Date of publishing: 29. June 2003

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