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Peshat (also P'shat, פשט) is one of the two
classic methods of
Jewish biblical exegesis, the
other being Derash.
While Peshat is
commonly defined as referring...
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Hebrew acronym formed from the
initials of the
following four approaches:
Peshat (פְּשָׁט) – "surface" ("straight") or the
literal (direct) meaning. Remez...
- ("Scripturalists")
accept only the
Hebrew Bible and what they view as the
Peshat ("simple" meaning); they do not
accept non-biblical
writings as authoritative...
- hairsplitting.
Authors referred to
their own
commentaries as "al
derekh ha-
peshat" (by the
simple method) to
contrast them with pilpul.
Among Sephardi and...
- are
called pardes from
their initial letters (PRDS פַּרדֵס, 'orchard'):
Peshat (Hebrew: פשט lit. 'simple'): the
direct interpretations of meaning. Remez...
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portion of his
writing is
dedicated to
making distinctions between the
peshat, or
plain and
literal meaning of the text, and the
aggadah or
rabbinic interpretation...
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studied on any of four
levels as
described in the Zohar:[citation needed]
Peshat, the
plain (simple) or
literal reading; Remez, the
allegorical reading through...
- on the Bible; most
common and
prominent are
medieval commentaries in the
peshat tradition Numerous editions of the
Mikraot Gedolot have been and continue...
- interpretation, and ****ociates it with the four
kinds of
Biblical exegesis:
peshat (literal meaning),
remez (allusion),
derash (anagogical), and sod (mystic)...
- talionis,
ethical Judaism and
humane Jewish jurisprudence replaces the
peshat (literal meaning) of the
written Torah.
Pasachoff and
Littman point to the...
