Program

Research Programs: Summer Stipends

Period of Performance

6/1/1977 - 7/31/1977

Funding Totals

$2,500.00 (approved)
$2,500.00 (awarded)


Studies in Inner-Biblical Exegesis

FAIN: FT-13626-77

Michael Fishbane
University of Chicago (Chicago, IL 60637-5418)

To systematically investigate and explicate the varieties and forms of textual exegesis within the canonical Hebrew Bible. Through a comparative typology with traditions and types of exegesis from ancient Mesopotamia and early Judaism, PI will, clarify styles of interpretation in the Hebrew Bible and place them within a larger frame of reference.