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Practices of Commentary

SSHRC Insight Grant, University of Toronto (2020–2025)

classical chinese philosophy

Mordechai COHEN

Yeshiva University

Mordechai Cohen is Associate Dean and Professor of Bible at the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies. Reflected in his recent volume, The Rule of Peshat, his research focuses on Jewish Bible commentary in Muslim and Christian contexts. His earlier volumes, Three Approaches to Biblical Metaphor and Opening the Gates of Interpretation, show how Jewish thinkers drew upon Arabic poetics and Muslim jurisprudence to interpret the Bible. In 2010/11, Cohen directed a fourteen-member international research group at the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies, leading to the publication of Interpreting Scriptures in Judaism, Christianity and Islam, co-edited with Adele Berlin.

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Borong ZHANG

Department of East Asian Studies, University of Toronto

Borong Zhang is a Master’s degree candidate in East Asian Studies specializing in classical Chinese philosophy. She completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Toronto, where she specialized in East Asian Studies, majored in Criminology and minored in Philosophy. Her interests are in classical Chinese philosophy, philosophy of law in ancient China, and hermeneutics in the Confucian tradition. 

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