{"product_id":"people-of-the-book-canon-meaning-authority-paper-9780674661127","title":"People of the Book  Canon Meaning  Authority","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHalbertal provides a panoramic survey of Jewish attitudes toward Scripture, provocatively organized around problems of normative and formative authority, with an emphasis on the changing status and functions of Mishnah, Talmud, and Kabbalah.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHalbertal offers a sophisticated analysis of the development of Jewish text-centered cultures. His work is an important study for the history of interpretation within Judaism, though its significance as a model of how text-centered religions think extends even beyond Judaism...The work would make an excellent classroom introduction to the nature of the role that canonization plays in religions whose experience of the divine is mediated by the interpretation of sacred texts. This book is best suited to the philosophically sophisticated lay reader and to students or scholars of the sociology of religion. It should certainly be included among the holdings of all general, theological, and religious studies research libraries. -- Robert H. O'Connell * Library Journal *\u003cbr\u003eAt once an introduction to Jewish hermeneutics, a reflection of canonicity, and a survey of Jewish politics of interpretation, this volume is lucidly composed and amply documented…This work is especially significant for its balanced and nuanced consideration of the \"canonization of controversy\" in Jewish thought. Particularly successful is Halbertal's use of his preferred expository device, the extended interpretation of selected controversies. Such closes analyses as, for example, those on R. Yair Bakhrakh and on the Maimonidean controversy are especially interesting. His probing review of philosophical and Kabbalistic challengers to Talmudism and his reflections on the Zionist turn from Talmud toward the Bible are careful and informative, yet also provocative. A desirable addition to undergraduate and graduate libraries. -- Steven M. Wasserstrom * Religious Studies Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Canonical Text and Text-Centered Community     PART 1: CANON AND MEANING      1. The Uses of Canon   2. The Sealed Canon   3. Authority and Sealing   4. The Meaning of the Canonical Text   5. Canon and the Principle of Charity   6. Textual Closure and Hermeneutical Openness   7. Uncharitable Readings of Canons     PART 2: AUTHORITY, CONTROVERSY, AND TRADITION   8. Authorial Intention and Authoritative Meaning   9. Canon and Controversy   10. Three Views on Controversy and Tradition   11. From a Flexible Canon to a Closed Code   12. The Institution and the Canon    PART 3: CANON AND CURRICULUM      13. Formative Text   14. The Concept of Torah in \"Talmud Torah\"   15. The Challengers of Talmudism   16. Codification and Decanonization   17. Esotericism and Censorship   18. Kabbalists and the Talmudic Curriculum   19. Strong Canonicity and Shared Discourse      Conclusion   Appendix: The Sovereign and the Canon   Notes   Index","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403600601431,"sku":"9780674661127","price":31.46,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780674661127.jpg?v=1730483946","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/people-of-the-book-canon-meaning-authority-paper-9780674661127","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}