Deconstructing the Bible

This book represents the first attempt by a single author to place the great Spanish Jewish Hebrew bible exegete, philosopher, poet, astronomer, astrologer and scientist Abraham ibn Ezra (1089-1164) in his complete contextual environment.

Irene Lancaster is a Biblical scholar and regular contributor to Christian Today. She is Co-Chair with Lord Rowan Williams of the Anglican-Jewish Conversation Group, and Chair of Broughton Park Jewish Christian Dialogue Group, UK. Her most recent book is an English translation of Rabbi Shear Yashuv Cohen: Between War and Peace by Yedidya HaCohen and Yechiel Frisch. She has also contributed to Rowan Williams' A Century of Poetry.

1. The Biography of Abraham Ibn Ezra  2. A History of the Scholarly Work on Ibn Ezra  3. Classical and Medieval Jewish Approaches to Text  4. Early Christian Hermeneutics  5. Muslim Hermeneutics  6. The Karaites  7. The Ge'onim  8. Introduction to the Torah: Translation and Commentary  9. Ibn Ezra's Philosophical Grammar