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Black Fire on White Fire

An Essay on Jewish Hermeneutics, from Midrash to Kabbalah

by Betty Rojtman

  • Paperback
  • 205 pages
  • Publisher: University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton
  • 13.9 x 21.2 x 1.7 cm

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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

    13.9 x 21.2 x 1.7 cm

  • ISBN

    9780520203211

  • ISBN-10

    0520203216

  • Eden Code

    1151334

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