The manual contains description of the main problems and methods of understanding of classical Jewish texts . Author relied primarily on the literary monuments of Judaism that emerged in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages . This Mishnah , Tosefta , Jerusalem and the Babylonian Talmud , Midrash collections . Hermeneutics Biblical texts and Hebrew texts of the Hellenistic period also addressed in this guide .
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Subject and tasks of hermeneutics as a science
Jewish hermeneutics until rabbinic exegesis
Rabbinic hermeneutics formative period (II-VII centuries).
Rabbinic hermeneutics in the Middle Ages
Birth scientific hermeneutics of Jewish texts and its main features