The intellectual history and rabbinic culture of medieval Ashkenaz /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Kanarfogel, Ephraim
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Detroit : Wayne State University Press, [2013]
Subjects:	Jewish learning and scholarship > Germany > History > To 1500. Jewish learning and scholarship > France, Northern > History > To 1500. Jews > Germany > Intellectual life > To 1500. Jews > France, Northern > Intellectual life > To 1500. Jewish religious eduction > France, Northern > History > To 1500. Jewish religious education > Germany > History > To 1500.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: regnant perceptions and empirical evidence
Talmudic and halakhic studies: internal organization and societal models
Tosafist biblical exegesis in northern France at the end of the twelfth century: between peshat and derash
The contours of biblical interpretation during the early thirteenth century
Interpretations for a varied audience through the thirteenth century
Genres and strategies of piyyut composition among the Tosafists
Magic and mysticism in Tosafist literature and thought
Tosafist approaches to matters of belief and the implications for popular culture
Conclusion: Ashkenazic rabbinic culture in its plenitude.