The Old Testament Hebrew Scriptures in Five Minutes - Philippe Guillaume
37. What Is Rabbinic Interpretation?
The Old Testament Hebrew Scriptures in Five Minutes - Philippe Guillaume
Zev Farber [+]
Shalom Hartman Institute
Zev Farber holds a PhD in Jewish Religious Cultures from Emory University and has advanced rabbinical ordination from Yeshivat Chovevei Torah Rabbinical School. He is the Senior Editor of TheTorah.com and is a Research Fellow at the Kogod Center of the Shalom Hartman Institute. He has published Images of Joshua in the Bible and Their Reception (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2016).
Description
Contrary to Christians readers who mined the Hebrew Bible for references to Christ, rabbinic Judaism developed midrash, a tradition of reading based on the internal coherence of the texts and the relevance of all their details, resulting in the Palestinian and Babylonian Talmuds and other collections of rabbinic works.