Peshat and Derash —— Plain and Applied Meaning in Rabbinic Exegesis

----- 权重和寻觅:拉比训诂学中简单而实用的意义

ISBN: 9780195115710 出版年：1998 页码：270 Halivni, David Weiss Oxford University Press

In this paperback reprint (which includes a new Afterword, responding to critics), noted Rabbinic scholar David Weiss Halivni offers a new explanation for the willingness of the early Sages to attribute to scripture meanings nowhere suggested in the text itself. He posits a sharp discontinuity between what the sages considered a valid meaning and our own modern understanding of textual meaning. He argues that the original meaning of the very work "peshat" was actually "context" rather than "literal" meaning, thus explaining the Rabbis' expressions of respect for peshat in the face of their evident unconcern for literal meaning in the text.