By Varese Layzer
Are early Irish tales encouraged by means of the Bible or transcriptions of pre-Christian Celtic lore? Layzer explores the sensible and theoretical problems of selecting 'influence' in old writing, and the dating among the oral and the written, literacy and literature and the disciplines of Irish reviews and religious study.
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It is a small step from there to believing that the non-Truth bits could also be of interest other than as murky or crystalline reflections of the Truth. It is difficult to make this move to documents as literature, though, when there are so few documents, and so few scholars to read them. These are virtually the only sources for the period—how else but by reading them for this legal and sociological information can historiography progress? The answer is that literary readings do not detract from historiographic ones, but rather complement them.
For the rabbis it was strange and unnecessary to look for a bottom line in one of the Bible's verses. 'Dogmatic thinking must rely on an unambiguous text. '17 Emergence of Rabbinic Interpretation in Modern Literary Theory (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1982), and in Kermode, 'The Plain Sense'. 15. Kermode, 'The Plain Sense', p. 185. 16. Kermode, The Plain Sense', pp. 188-89. 17. J. ), Midrash and Literature, p. 129. 50 Signs of Weakness Thus at least two fundamentally different ideas of interpretation have always been in motion in biblical studies.
Given a blemish to') a man also refer to money?... So why do we need a repetition of the law with the words, so shall it be rendered (given) unto himl It must therefore come to teach that it refers to monetary compensation... , 'in') hand. This implies something that is given from hand to hand. What is that? 71 The conclusion that Davies reaches—justifiably, I think—is that there is a multiplicity of meanings in any text. This applies both to early Irish texts alone and to comparative studies involving early Irish texts.