Download or read book Rabbinic Interpretation of Scripture in the Mishnah written by Alexander Samely and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2002 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a systematic and detailed description of early rabbinic hermeneutics as it can be reconstructed from the Mishnah (third century c.e.). Samely clarifies the conditions of a modern appreciation of rabbinic hermeneutics and provides a unified set of concepts for its precise description, based on modern linguistics and philosophy of language. Basic features of rabbinic hermeneutics and its difference from modern historical reading are explained, and a catalogue of recurrent techniques of interpretation is defined.