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<p>This volume brings together the latest scholarship on Jewish literary products and the ways in which they can be interpreted from three different perspectives. In part 1 contributors consider texts as literature as cultural products and as historical documents to demonstrate the many ways that early Jewish rabbinic and modern secular Jewish literary works make meaning and can be read meaningfully. Part 2 focuses on exegesis of specific biblical and rabbinic texts as well as medieval Jewish poetry. Part 3 examines medieval and early modern Jewish books as material objects and explores the history functions and reception of these material objects. Contributors include Javier del Barco Elisheva Carlebach Ezra Chwat Evelyn M. Cohen Naftali S. Cohn William Cutter Yaacob Dweck Talya Fishman Steven D. Fraade Dalia-Ruth Halperin Martha Himmelfarb Marc Hirshman Tamar Kadari Israel Knohl Susanne Klingenstein Katrin Kogman-Appel Jon D. Levenson Paul Mandel Annett Martini Jordan S. Penkower Annette Yoshiko Reed Jeffrey L. Rubenstein Shalom Sabar Raymond P. Scheindlin Seth Schwartz Sarit Shalev-Eyni Moshe Simon-Shoshan Peter Stallybrass Josef Stern Barry Scott Wimpfheimer Elliot R. Wolfson Azzan Yadin-Israel and Joseph Yahalom.</p>