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Black Fire on White Fire

An Essay on Jewish Hermeneutics, from Midrash to Kabbalah [Paperback]

by Betty Rojtman

    • Author

      Betty Rojtman

    • Book Format

      Paperback

    • Publisher

      University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton

    • Published

      February 1998

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      Using the tools of contemporary semiotic theory to analyze classical rabbinic hermeneutics and medieval mystical exegesis, Betty Rojtman unveils a modernity in these early forms of textual interpretation. The metaphor from rabbinic literature that describes the writing of the Torah - black fire on white fire - becomes, in Rojtman's analysis, a figure for the differential structures that can be found throughout rabbinic discourse. Moving through the successive levels of traditional commentary, from early Midrash to modern Kabbalah, Rojtman examines the tension betweeen the fluidity and nuance of the biblical text and the fixed commitment to ideological and theological content. To examine this strain between open text and sacred language, Rojtman scrutinizes the demonstrative, "this," as a word whose signi-ficance changes with every change in context. Her analysis suggests a double-layered meaning for "this," which refers to the existential world in its multiplicity but also to transcendence and the eternal presence of God.

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      • Author

        Betty Rojtman

      • Book Format

        Paperback

      • Publisher

        University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton

      • Published

        February 1998

      • Weight

        273g

      • Page Count

        205

      • Dimensions

        139 x 212 x 17 mm

      • ISBN

        9780520203211

      • ISBN-10

        0520203216

      • Eden Code

        1151334

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      • Author/Creator: Betty Rojtman

      • ISBN: 9780520203211

      • Publisher: University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton

      • Release Date: February 1998

      • Weight: 273g

      • Dimensions: 139 x 212 x 17 mm

      • Eden Code: 1151334


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