Readership: Students and scholars of Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
Edited by Jane Dammen McAuliffe, Professor of, Georgetown University, Barry D. Walfish, Judaic Specialist, and Joseph W. Goering, Professor of History and Director of the Center for the Study of Religion and Professor of History, both at the University of Toronto
"The utmost accomplishment of the book is the contributions themselves, many of which are scholarly gems." - Journal of the American Oriental Society
"With Reverence for the Word is both a readable and informative collection of essays important for the study of medieval scriptural exegesis." - Shari L. Lowin, Journal of Near Eastern Studies
Jane Dammen McAuliffe: Preface Part One: Medieval Jewish Biblical Exegesis 1: Barry D. Walfish: Introduction 2: Stephen D. Benin: The Search for Truth in Sacred Scripture: Jews, Christians, and the Authority to Interpret 3: Haggai Ben-Shammai: The Tension between Literal Interpretation and Exegetical Freedom: Comparative Observations on Saadia's Method 4: Daniel J. Frank: Karaite Commentaries on the Song of Songs from Tenth-Century Jerusalem 5: Michael A. Signer: Restoring the Narrative: Jewish and Christian Exegesis in the Twelfth Century 6: Martin Lockshin: Rashbam as a 'Literary' Exegete 7: Elliot R. Wolfson: Asceticism and Eroticism in Medieval Jewish Philosophical and Mystical Exegesis of the Song of Song 8: Barry D. Walfish: Typology, Narrative, and History: Isaac ben Joseph ha-Kohen on the Book of Ruth 9: Marc Saperstein: The Method of Doubts: Problematizing the Bible in Late Medieval Jewish Exegesis 10: Eric Lawee: Introducing Scripture: The Accessus ad auctores in Hebrew Exegetical Literature from the Thirteenth through the Fifteenth Centuries 11: Alan Cooper: On the Special Role of Biblical Interpretation: The Case of Proverbs 22:6 Part Two: Medieval Christian Biblical Exegesis 12: Joseph Goering: Introduction 13: Abigail Firey: The Letter of the Law: Carolingian Exegetes and the Old Testament 14: Edward Synan: The Four 'Senses' and Four Exegetes 15: James R. Ginther: Laudat sensum et significationem: Robert Grosseteste and the Four Senses of Scripture 16: Robert Sweetman: Beryl Smalley, Thomas of Camtimpre, and the Performative Reading of Scripture: A Study in Two Exempla 17: John Boyle: The Theological Character of the Scholastic 'Division of the Text' with Particular Reference to the Commentaries of St. Thomas Aquinas 18: Edouard Jeanuneau: Thomas of Ireland and his De tribus sensibus sacrae scripturae 19: A. J. Minnis: Material Swords and Literal Lights: The Status of Allegory in William of Ockham's reviloquium on Papal Power Part Three: Medieval Exegesis of the Qur'an 20: Jane Dammen Mc Auliffe: Introduction 21: Fred Leemhuis: Discussion and Debate in Early Commentaries of the Qur'an 22: Herbert Berg: Weakness in the Arguments for the Early Dating of the Qur'anic Commentary 23: Gerhard Bowering: The Scriptural 'Senses' in Medieval Sufi Qur'an Exegesis 24: Hava Lazarus-Yafeh: Are There Allegories in Sufi Qur'an Interpretation? 25: Angelika Neuwirth: From the Sacred Mosque to the Remote Temple: Surat al-Isra' between Text and Commentary 26: Gerald Hawting: Qur'anic Exegesis and History 27: Stefan Wild: The Self-Referentiality of the Qur'an: Sura 3:7 as an Exegetical Challenge 28: Andrew Rippin: The Designation of 'Foreign' Languages in the Exegesis of the Qur'an 29: Jane Dammen McAuliffe: The Genre Boundaries of Qur'anic Commentary
