
This important collection examines the ways in which the language of the scriptures stimulated the understanding of the sacred text in a range of Jewish and Christian texts from late antiquity. The studies in this volume focus on interpretative traditions that grew out of the...

This volume assembles several important studies that examine the role of language in meaning and interpretation. The various contributions investigate interpretation in the versions, in intertestamental traditions, in the New Testament, and in the rabbis and the targumim. The...