Scriptural Reasoning

“Come, Let Us Climb the Lord’s Mountain!” Catholics, Jews, and the Hope of Scriptural Reasoning

by Kevin L Hughes

Denying the Undeniable: Pharaoh and the Signs of God

by Ahmed Afzaal

The Other as Mirror: Scriptural Reasoning and the Hermeneutics of Ibn Al-Arabi

by Ahmed Afzaal

Capturing the meanings of God's speech: the relevance of uṣūl al-fiqh to an understanding of uṣūl al-tafsīr in Jewish and Muslim kalām

by Gregor Schwarb أغريغور شوارب גריגור שוורב

published in:
A WORD FITLY SPOKEN: Studies in Mediaeval Exegesis of the Hebrew Bible and the Qur’ān presented to Haggai Ben-Shammai [דבר דבור על אופניו: מחקרים בפרשנות המקרא והקראן בימי הביניים מוגשים לחגי בן-שמאי], eds. Meir M. Bar-Asher, Simon Hopkins, Sarah Stroumsa and Bruno Chiesa, Jerusalem: The Ben-Zvi Institute for the History of Jewish Communities in the East, Yad Izhak Ben-Zvi and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2007, pp. 111*–156*. [in English]
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This article will be reprinted in M. Shah (ed.), Tafsir: Interpreting the Qurʾān (Critical Concepts in Islamic Studies), Volume II: Tafsir: Theory and Constructs, Part 3: Procedural and Conceptual Devices (article no. 18), London & New York: Routledge 2012.
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This article draws the attention of historians of scriptural exegesis to the relevance of uṣūl al-fiqh — both as a... more This article draws the attention of historians of scriptural exegesis to the relevance of uṣūl al-fiqh — both as a literary genre and as a discipline of the religious sciences — to an understanding of the semiotic foundations and the hermeneutic discourse of scriptural commentaries (uṣūl al-tafsīr) in mediaeval Judaism and Islam. What are the means through which meaning is produced, what are the conditions to be met for the possibility of their understanding? We find the most systematic and exhaustive discussions on these and related questions not in the commentaries themselves but in compositions on uṣūl al-fiqh.

The King James Bible at 400: Scripture, Statecraft, and the American Founding.

by Bernard M. Levinson

Co-authored with Joshua Berman, published as a special supplement in The History Channel Magazine, November 2010, pp. 1-11.

This short article addressed to a broader readership investigates the impact of the King James Bible upon the American... more This short article addressed to a broader readership investigates the impact of the King James Bible upon the American founding. In order to show that impact, the article's first half portrays the political context for the formation of the King James, charts the influence of the Bible upon early modern political thought, and then sketches the impact of the KJV upon the rhetoric and political thought of the Founders. The essay is accompanied by a timeline.

Key Words:
Authorized Version; King James Version; American Founding; Bible and political thought, religion and the founding, founders, Bible and intellectual history, Spinoza, Bible and constitution; Bible and democracy.