With Reverence for the Word

Jane Dammen McAuliffe is President and Professor of History at Bryn Mawr College, previously Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Georgetown University. She sits on the Council on Foreign Relations. arry D. Walfish is cross-appointed as Collection Development Department for the University of Toronto Library and Professor of Religions Studies. Joseph W. Goering is cross-appointed to the departments of History and Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto.

• LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS; ABBREVIATIONS; 1. AN INTRODUCTION TO MEDIEVAL JEWISH BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION; BARRY D. WALFISH; 2. THE SEARCH FOR TRUTH IN SACRED SCRIPTURE: JEWS, CHRISTIANS, AND THE AUTHORITY TO INTERPRET; STEPHEN D. BENIN; 3. THE TENSION BETWEEN LITERAL INTERPRETATION AND EXEGETICAL FREEDOM: COMPARATIVE OBSERVATIONS ON SAADIA'S METHOD; HAGGAI BEN-SHAMMAI; 4. KARAITE COMMENTARIES ON THE SONG OF SONGS FROM TENTH-CENTURY JERUSALEM; DANIEL FRANK; 5. RESTORING THE NARRATIVE: JEWISH AND CHRISTIAN EXEGESIS IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY; MICHAEL A. SIGNER; 6. RASHBAM AS A "LITERARY" EXEGETE; MARTIN LOCKSHIN; 7. ASCETICISM AND EROTICISM IN MEDIEVAL JEWISH PHILOSOPHICAL AND MYSTICAL EXEGESIS OF THE SONG OF SONGS; ELLIOT R. WOLFSON; 8. TYPOLOGY, NARRATIVE, AND HISTORY: ISAAC BEN JOSEPH HA-KOHEN ON THE BOOK OF RUTH; BARRY D. WALFISH; 9. THE METHOD OF DOUBTS: PROBLEMATIZING THE BIBLE IN LATE MEDIEVAL JEWISH EXEGESIS; MARC SAPERSTEIN; 10. INTRODUCING SCRIPTURE: THE ACCESSUS AD AUCTORES IN HEBREW EXEGETICAL LITERATURE FROM THE THIRTEENTH THROUGH THE FIFTEENTH CENTURIES; ERIC LAWEE; 11. ON THE SOCIAL ROLE OF BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION: THE CASE OF PROVERBS; ALAN COOPER; 12. AN INTRODUCTION TO MEDIEVAL CHRISTIAN BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION; JOSEPH W. GOERING; 13. THE LETTER OF THE LAW: CAROLINGIAN EXEGETES AND THE OLD TESTAMENT; ABIGAIL FIREY; 14. THE FOUR "SENSES" AND THE FOUR EXEGETES; EDWARD SYNAN; 15. LAUDAT SENSUM ET SIGNIFICATIONEM: ROBERT GROSSETESTE ON THE FOUR SENSES OF SCRIPTURE; JAMES R. GINTHER; 16. BERYL SMALLEY, THOMAS OF CANTIMPRE, AND THE PERFORMATIVE READING OF SCRIPTURE: A STUDY IN TWO EXEMPLA; ROBERT SWEETMAN; 17. THE THEOLOGICAL CHARACTER OF THE SCHOLASTIC "DIVISION OF THE TEXT" WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO THE COMMENTARIES OF SAINT THOMAS AQUINAS; JOHN F. BOYLE; 18. THOMAS OF IRELAND AND HIS DE TRIBUS SENSIBUS SACRAE SCRIPTURAE; EDOURAD JEAUNEAU; 19. MATERIAL SWORDS AND LITERAL LIGHTS: THE STATUS OF ALLEGORY IN WILLIAM OF OCKHAM'S BREVILOQUIUM ON PAPAL POWER; A.J. MINNIS; 20. AN INTRODUCTION TO MEDIEVAL INTERPRETATION OF THE QUR'AN; JANE DAMMEN MCAULIFFE; 21. DISCUSSION AND DEBATE IN EARLY COMMENTARIES ON THE QUR'AN; FRED LEEMHUIS; 22. WEAKNESS IN THE ARGUMENTS FOR THE EARLY DATING OF QUR'ANIC COMMENTARY; HERBERT BERG; 23. THE SCRIPTURAL "SENSES" IN MEDIEVAL SUFI QUR'AN EXEGESIS; GERHARD BOWERING; 24. ARE THERE ALLEGORIES IN SUFI QUR'AN INTERPRETATION?; HAVA LAZARUS-YAFEH; 25. FROM THE SACRED MOSQUE TO THE REMOTE TEMPLE: SURAT AL-ISRA' BETWEEN TEXT AND COMMENTARY; ANGELIKA NEUWIRTH; 26. QUR'ANIC EXEGESIS AND HISTORY; GERALD HAWTING; 27. THE SELF-REFERENTIALITY OF THE QUR'AN: SURA 3:7 AS AN EXEGETICAL CHALLENGE; STEFAN WILD; 28. THE DESIGNATION OF "FOREIGN" LANGUAGE IN THE EXEGESIS OF THE QUR'AN; 29. THE GENRE BOUNDARIES OF QUR'ANIC COMMENTARY; JANE DAMMEN MCAULIFFE; SUBJECT INDEX; INDEX TO CITATIONS FROM THE BIBLE, RABBINIC LITERATURE, AND THE QUR'AN

For anyone involved in 'scriptual reasoning' or 'meetings for better understanding' with those of other fatihs, or for those interested in the middle ages, this could be a valuable volume to dip into.