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...

Hebrew acronym formed from the initials of the following four approaches: Peshat (פְּשָׁט‎) – "surface" ("straight") or the literal (direct) meaning. Remez...

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...

hairsplitting. Authors referred to their own commentaries as "al derekh ha-peshat" (by the simple method) to contrast them with pilpul. Among Sephardi and...

("Scripturalists") accept only the Hebrew Bible and what they view as the Peshat ("simple" meaning); they do not accept non-biblical writings as authoritative...

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...

are called pardes from their initial letters (PRDS פַּרדֵס‎, 'orchard'): Peshat (Hebrew: פשט lit. 'simple'): the direct interpretations of meaning. Remez...

literalist chronology Book of Nepos Demythologization Parallelomania Pardes Peshat Young Earth creationism "Literalism". Dictionary.com. Retrieved August 9...

of much of midrashic interpretation has been distinguished from that of peshat, straight or direct interpretation aiming at the original literal meaning...

Babylonian schools. The Babylonian Amoraim were the first to use the expression "Peshaṭ" ("simple" or face value method) to designate the primary sense, contrasting...

Encyclopedia.com Joseoph ben Eliezer Bonfils Lockshin, M.I. (2009). Lonely Man of Peshat. Jewish Quarterly Review 99(2), 291–300. doi:10.1353/jqr.0.0041. v t e v...

talionis, ethical Judaism and humane Jewish jurisprudence replaces the peshat (literal meaning) of the written Torah. Pasachoff and Littman point to the...

adherents to their movement. Maskilim valued and adapted his emphasis on peshat over pilpul, his engagement with and mastery of Hebrew grammar and Bible...

Targum Onkelos as an exposition of the "official" interpretation of the peshat (or basic meaning) of the Torah as received by rabbis Eliezer ben Hurcanus...

erred in their understanding of the original context. In Halivni's books Peshat and Derash and Revelation Restored, he attempts to harmonize biblical criticism...

interpretation, and associates it with the four kinds of Biblical exegesis: peshat (literal meaning), remez (allusion), derash (anagogical), and sod (mystic)...

jewishencyclopedia.com. Retrieved May 22, 2019. Mordechai Z. Cohen, The Rule of Peshat: Jewish Constructions of the Plain Sense of Scripture and Their Christian...

interpretation of the Torah strives to adhere to the plain or most obvious meaning (peshat) of the text; this is not necessarily the literal meaning of the text—instead...

Pesach, Shavuot, and Hanukkah. The majority of the essays address the peshat or simple understanding of the Biblical text (written law) and attempt to...

ibn Ezra and David Kimhi, from whom he shared their sense of "derek ha peshat" (an exegesis which prefers a literalist historicalism above allegorical...

רזא), a commentary on the Pentateuch, in which literal interpretations ("peshaṭ") are frequently intermingled with "Noṭariḳon" and "Gemaṭriot." The authorities...

influential Jewish exegete of all time. He is the preeminent expounder of Peshat. Rashi wrote "I, however, am only concerned with the plain sense of Scripture...

Besides classical authors, he made use of the church fathers and of Jewish Peshat exegesis. Berndt 2002. Cross & Livingstone 2005. Berndt, Rainer (1991)....

these other sources as binding or authoritative. Karaites prefer to use the peshat method of study, seeking a meaning within the text that would have been...

Christians have used the term to mean the larger or whole teaching of scripture. Peshat "Sensus plenior". reclaimingthemind.org. 21 July 2012. Archived from the...

Talmudic commentators occupied themselves only with the plain meaning ("peshaṭ") of the text; but after the beginning of the twelfth century the spirit...

which in his opinion are indispensable to the exegete:[citation needed] The peshat, the "plain" meaning of the text in its own right. The midrash or the aggadic...

approach mysticism. In his commentary on the Song of Solomon, he calls peshaִt (literal explanation) and sod (mystical interpretation) the two opposite...

Encyclopedia Judaica (first edition) Keter Publishing, 1972 David Weiss Halivni Peshat and Derash: Plain and Applied Meaning in Rabbinic Exegesis Oxford University...