First words, last words, new theories for reading old texts in sixteenth-century India, Yigal Bronner and Lawrence McCrea
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First words, last words, new theories for reading old texts in sixteenth-century India, Yigal Bronner and Lawrence McCrea
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eng
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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index present
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non fiction
Main title
First words, last words
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electronic resource
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dictionariesbibliography
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1249711060
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Yigal Bronner and Lawrence McCrea
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Oxford scholarship online.
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new theories for reading old texts in sixteenth-century India
Summary
This work explores the nature of theoretical innovation in scholastic traditions by focusing on a specific controversy regarding scriptural interpretation in 16th-century India. The controversy concerns the role of sequence-what comes first and what comes later-in determining our interpretation of a scriptural passage. Bronner and McCrea trace both the issue of sequence and the question of innovation through an in-depth study of this debate and through a comparative survey of similar problems in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, revealing that the disputants in this controversy often pretended to uphold traditional views, when they were in fact radically innovative.--, Provided by publisher
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