The reception of Rashi's Commentary on the Torah in Spain: the case of Adam's mating with the animals.(Critical essay) From: The Jewish Quarterly Review | Date: January 1, 2007| Author: Lawee, Eric | COPYRIGHT 2007 University of Pennsylvania Press. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

WHILE RASHI'S BIBLICAL COMMENTARY has profited from extensive and more or less uninterrupted scholarly inquiry, (1) considerably less attention has been devoted to the varied reactions over the ages to his scriptural exegesis. (2) The sorts of questions rightly posed with respect to Maimonides' Mishneh Torah should also be asked about Rashi's Commentary on the Torah: " Where and when did the book penetrate first? Who were its sponsors and opponents? What were the initial steps, or ...