Preface I. THE HERMENEUTICS OF SCRIPTURE IN FORMATION 1. Inner-Biblical Exegesis: Types and Strategies of Interpretation in Ancient Israel 2. Extra-Biblical Exegesis: The Sense of Not Reading in Rabbinic Midrash 3. The Garments of Torah-Or, to What May Scripture Be Compared? II. SCRIPTURAL HERMENEUTICS AND THE FORMS OF CULTURE 4. Israel and the Mothers 5. From Scribalism to Rabbinism: Perspectiveson the Emergence of Classical Judaism III.

HERMENEUTICS, SCRIPTURE, AND THE PRESENT HOUR 6. The Biblical Dialogue of Martin Buber 7. Martin Buber's Moses 8. Speech and Scripture: The Grammatical Thinking and Theology of Franz Rosenzweig 9. The Teacher and the Hermeneutical Task: A Reinterpretation of Medieval Exegesis Conclusion: The Notion of a Sacred Text Notes Index.