Un des éditeurs

Jane McAuliffe est doyenne et professeur à l’École des Arts et des Sciences de l’Université de Georgetown à Washington. Elle est actuellement présidente de la Bryn Mawr College. Islamologue reconnue et impliquée activement dans le dialogue interreligieux, elle est l’éditrice du monumental encyclopedia of the Qur’an.

Presentation

This volume is the first trilateral exploration of medieval scriptural interpretation. The vast literature written during the medieval period is one of both great diversity and numerous cross-cultural similarities. These essays explore this rich heritage of biblical and qur’anic interpretation.

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Table des matières

Title Page Preface Contents List of Contributors Abbreviations

Part I : Medieval Jewish Exegesis of the Bible

1 : An Introduction to Medieval Jewish Biblical Interpretation Notes 2 : Jews, Christians, and the Authority to Interpret Notes Bibliography 3 : Comparative Observations on Saadia’s Method Notes Bibliography 4 : Karaite Commentaries on the Song of Songs from Tenth-Century Jerusalem Notes Bibliography 5 : Jewish and Christian Exegesis in the Twelfth Century Notes Bibliography 6 : Rashbam as a “literary” Exegete Notes Bibliography 7 : Asceticism and Eroticism in Medieval Jewish Philosophical and Mystical Exegesis of the Song of Songs Notes Bibliography 8 : Isaac Ben Joseph Ha-Kohen on the Book of Ruth Notes Bibliography 9 : Problematizing the Bible in Late Medieval Jewish Exegesis Notes Bibliography 10 : The Accessus Ad Auctores in Hebrew Exegetical Literature from the Thirteenth Through the Fifteenth Centuries Notes Bibliography 11 : The Case of Proverbs 22:6 Notes Bibliography

Part II : Medieval Christian Exegesis of the Bible

12 : An Introduction to Medieval Christian Biblical Interpretation Notes 13 : Carolingian Exegetes and the Old Testament Notes Bibliography 14 : The Four “senses” and Four Exegetes Notes Bibliography 15 : Robert Grosseteste on the Four Senses of Scripture Notes Bibliography 16 : A Study in Two Exempla Notes Bibliography 17 : The Theological Character of the Scholastic “division of the Text” with Particular Reference to the Commentaries of Saint Thomas Aquinas Appendix : Saint Thomas Aquinas’s Division of the Gospel According to Saint John Notes Bibliography 18 : Thomas of Ireland and His De Tribus Sensibus Sacrae Scripturae Notes Bibliography 19 : The Status of Allegory in William of Ockham’s Breviloquium on Papal Power Notes Bibliography

Part III : Medieval Exegesis of the Qur’Ān

20 : An Introduction to Medieval Interpretation of the Qur’ān Notes

21 : Discussion and Debate in Early Commentaries of the Qur’ān Notes Bibliography

22 : Weaknesses in the Arguments for the Early Dating of Qur’ānic Commentary Notes Bibliography

23 : The Scriptural “senses” in Medieval SūFi Qur’ān Exegesis Notes Bibliography

24 : Are There Allegories in SūFi Qur’ān Interpretation ? Notes Bibliography

25 : Sūrat Al-Isrā Between Text and Commentary Notes Bibliography

26 : Qur’ānic Exegesis and History Notes Bibliography

27 : Sura 3:7 as an Exegetical Challenge Notes Bibliography

28 : The Designation of “foreign” Languages in the Exegesis of the Qur’An Notes Bibliography

29 : The Genre Boundaries of Qur’ānic Commentary

Notes Bibliography Subject Index Index to Citations from the Bible, Rabbinic Literature, and the Quran