Commentary on Midrash Rabba in the Sixteenth Century : The Or ha-Sekhel of Abraham ben Asher
- Submitting institution
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King's College London
- Unit of assessment
- 31 - Theology and Religious Studies
- Output identifier
- 89248749
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198759232.001.0001
- Publisher
- Oxford Univerity Press; Oxford
- ISBN
- 9780198759232
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- September
- Year of publication
- 2016
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- This 227-page monograph presents a detailed scholarly study of a relatively unknown work, the Or ha-Sekhel (‘Light of the Intellect’), a commentary on Genesis Rabba written by Abraham ben Asher of Safed and published in Venice in 1567. Williams explores the work’s interpretative techniques, production and reception. The volume includes discussion of Pseudo-Rashi’s commentary on Genesis Rabba (printed alongside Or ha-Sekhel) and seven appendices. Contextualising the work in a new wave of Midrash commentary in the Ottoman Empire, it represents a significant contribution to the study of 16th-century printed rabbinic midrashim and their reception in the early modern period.
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- Non-English
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