Creating Fictional Worlds

Hanna Liss, Ph.D. (1995) in Jewish Studies, University of Berlin, is Professor of Bible and Jewish Exegesis at the Hochschule für Jüdische Studien, Heidelberg, Germany. She has published extensively on medieval Jewish Exegesis and Ashkenazic pietism including Raschi und sein Erbe (Winter, 2007) and El'asar ben Yehuda von Worms, Hilkhot ha-Kavod (Mohr, 1997)

• TABLE OF CONTENTSIntroductionChapter One: The Northern French School of Biblical Exegesis: The Status Quaestionis in Modern ScholarshipChapter Two: Reevaluating Biblical Commentaries in Northern FranceChapter Three: R. Samuel ben Meïr (Rashbam): His Torah Commentary and Its TransmissionChapter Four: The Torah and the Art of NarrativeChapter Five: Rashbam’s Commentaries between רומנץ and ‘Romance'Chapter Six: Peshaṭ and HalakhahChapter Seven: The Old French Glosses and Rashbam’s Exegesis ‘According to the Ways of the World’Conclusion: Rabbis, Knights, and the Excitement of Medieval Adolescence

"An important contribution to the study of medieval Jewish exegesis that should be considered by anyone interested in the peshat tradition of Northern France."Pinchas Roth, graduate student in the Talmud Department at Hebrew University, Association of Jewish Libraries, September/October 2011, Volume 1, No. 3. Jerusalem