"Describing rabbinic reasoning as a rational response to experience. Hashkes combines insights from the analytic philosophy of Wittgenstein, Quine, and Davidson with the semiotics of Peirce to construe knowledge as systematic reasoning occurring within a community of inquiry. Her reading of the works of Emmanuel Levinas and Jean-Luc Marion allows her to create a philosophical bridge between a discourse of God and a discourse of reason. This synthesis of analytic philosophy and pragmatism, hermeneutics and theology provides Hashkes with a sophisticated tool to understand Rabbinic Judaism. It also makes this study both unique and path breaking in contemporary Jewish philosophy and Rabbinic thought"--
4.2 Torah's Seventy Faces: Three Models4.2.1 The Referential Model; 4.2.2 The Self-Referential Model; 4.2.3 An Interactive Model of Torah's Formation; 4.3 Conclusion: Rabbinic Authority and Hermeneutics; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
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