Amazon.com description: Product Description: This volume contains fifteen essays, evenly divided among the fields of medieval Jewish thought, literature and exegesis. Using Rashi and Maimonides as intellectual templates, several of these essays seek to examine aspects of their writings in particular, while others provide a broader comparative view between the rabbinic cultures of Ashkenaz and Sefarad. All the of the studies feature close textual readings as well as insights into the methodology of the key figures that they treat.