First Words, Last Words

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First Words, Last Words is written by Yigal Bronner and published by Oxford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0197583490 (ISBN 10) and 9780197583494 (ISBN 13).

First Words, Last Words explores the nature of theoretical innovation in scholastic traditions by focusing on a specific controversy regarding scriptural interpretation in sixteenth-century India. The controversy concerns the role of sequence-what comes first and what comes later-in determining our interpretation of a scriptural passage. Bronner and McCrea trace both the issue of sequence and the question of innovation through an in-depth study of this debate and through a comparative survey of similar problems in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, revealing that the disputants in this controversy often pretended to uphold traditional views, when they were in fact radically innovative.