Polemical And Exegetical Polarities In Medieval Jewish Cultures

Author : Ehud Krinis,Nabih Bashir,Sara Offenberg,Shalom Sadik
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110702262

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Polemical and Exegetical Polarities in Medieval Jewish Cultures by Ehud Krinis,Nabih Bashir,Sara Offenberg,Shalom Sadik Pdf

In his academic career, that by now spans six decades, Daniel J. Lasker distinguished himself by the wide range of his scholarly interests. In the field of Jewish theology and philosophy he contributed significantly to the study of Rabbinic as well as Karaite authors. In the field of Jewish polemics his studies explore Judeo-Arabic and Hebrew texts, analyzing them in the context of their Christian and Muslim backgrounds. His contributions refer to a wide variety of authors who lived from the 9th century to the 18th century and beyond, in the Muslim East, in Muslin and Christian parts of the Mediterranean Sea, and in west and east Europe. This Festschrift for Daniel J. Lasker consists of four parts. The first highlights his academic career and scholarly achievements. In the three other parts, colleagues and students of Daniel J. Lasker offer their own findings and insights in topics strongly connected to his studies, namely, intersections of Jewish theology and Biblical exegesis with the Islamic and Christian cultures, as well as Jewish-Muslim and Jewish-Christian relations. Thus, this wide-scoped and rich volume offers significant contributions to a variety of topics in Jewish Studies.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004686571

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“An Inspired Man” by Anonim Pdf

This volume is dedicated to Professor Joshua Blau, of blessed memory. The articles included therein, written by his students and fellows, all deal with the Judeo-Arabic language and its associated culture. Among them are articles dealing with language, lexicography, cross-cultural relations, biblical translation, prayer, law, and poetics. The wide scope of material in this volume attests to the richness and breadth of Judeo-Arabic as well as to the expansive range of fields studied by Professor Blau himself.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 794 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2024-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004686946

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Religious and Intellectual Diversity in the Islamicate World and Beyond Volume II by Anonim Pdf

Religious and Intellectual Diversity in the Islamicate World and Beyond is a collection of essays in honor of Sarah Stroumsa, an eminent scholar who through the years has embodied and advanced the possibility of collaboration across borders. The volume is presented to her by scholars working on the study of the intellectual history of the Middle Ages, the intercultural contact and migration of knowledge in the Islamic world, and many other topics. Contributors: Binyamin Abrahamov, Camilla Adang, Anna Ayse Akasoy, Aleida Assmann, Jan Assmann, Meir M. Bar-Asher, José Bellver, Menachem Ben-Sasson, Haggai Ben-Shammai, Glen W. Bowersock, Rémi Brague, Godefroid de Callataÿ, Jonathan Decter, Michael Ebstein, Hussein Fancy, Carlos Fraenkel, Gil Gambash, Robert Gleave, Miriam Goldstein, Frank Griffel, Jaakko Hämeen Anttila, Steven Harvey, Warren Zev Harvey, Meir Hatina, Geoffrey Khan, Gudrun Krämer, Ehud Krinis, Y. Tzvi Langermann, Daniel J. Lasker, Reimund Leicht, Gideon Libson, Menachem Lorberbaum, Maria Mavroudi, Jon McGinnis, Omer Michaelis, Yonatan Moss, David Nirenberg, Sari Nusseibeh, Olaf Pluta, Meira Polliack, James T. Robinson, Marina Rustow, Sabine Schmidtke, Gregor Schwarb, Ahmed El Shamsy, Mark Silk, Uriel Simonsohn, Daniel De Smet, Josef Stern, Guy G. Stroumsa, Sara Sviri, Alexander Treiger, Roy Vilozny, Ronny Vollandt, Elvira Wakelnig, Paul E. Walker, David J. Wasserstein, Tanja Werthmann, Dong Xiuyuan, Arye Zoref.

Author : Dionisio Candido,Renate Egger-Wenzel,Stefan C. Reif
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783111338057

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What Makes a People? by Dionisio Candido,Renate Egger-Wenzel,Stefan C. Reif Pdf

This set of varied and stimulating papers, by an international group of younger as well as senior scholars, examines the manner in which peoplehood was understood by the Jewish communities of the Second Temple period and by the religious traditions that emerged from those communities and later flourished in Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism. The Hebrew and Greek terms for "people" and "nation" and the name "Israel" are closely analyzed, especially in forays into wisdom literature, Jewish apologetic and the Dead Sea Scrolls, and their uses are related to geographical, political and theological developments, as well as statehood, authority and rulership in the Persian world, Hasmonean times and Ptolemaic Egypt. Especially interesting are the carefully argued and documented suggestions about how Jewish peoplehood expressed itself with regard to charitable behavior, pagan deities, and marital regulations. Those interested in the history of cultural and theological tensions will be intrigued by the studies centered on how the opponents of Jews behaved towards "the people of God", how Hellenistic Jewish culture located the Jews on the Roman rather than on the Greek side, and how early Christian discourse saw the mission among the peoples and interpreted earlier sources accordingly. The idea of the Jewish "way of life" is seen to have influenced the writer of the longer Greek version of Esther and works of fiction are shown to have had important historical data within them. Modern social theory also has its say here in a careful consideration of Cognitive theory of ethnicity and the dynamic of ethnic boundary-making.

Author : Wout J. van Bekkum
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004527003

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The Religious Poetry of El'azar ben Ya'aqov ha-Bavli by Wout J. van Bekkum Pdf

This is a comprehensive edition of Hebrew hymns composed by Eleazar the Babylonian, a prolific composer and scholar who lived in 13th-century Baghdad. His poetic language and style show much affinity with contemporary Sufism.

Author : Naftali S. Cohn,Katrin Kogman-Appel
Publisher : SBL Press
Page : 775 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781951498993

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Beloved David—Advisor, Man of Understanding, and Writer by Naftali S. Cohn,Katrin Kogman-Appel Pdf

This volume brings together the latest scholarship on Jewish literary products and the ways in which they can be interpreted from three different perspectives. In part 1, contributors consider texts as literature, as cultural products, and as historical documents to demonstrate the many ways that early Jewish, rabbinic, and modern secular Jewish literary works make meaning and can be read meaningfully. Part 2 focuses on exegesis of specific biblical and rabbinic texts as well as medieval Jewish poetry. Part 3 examines medieval and early modern Jewish books as material objects and explores the history, functions, and reception of these material objects. Contributors include Javier del Barco, Elisheva Carlebach, Ezra Chwat, Evelyn M. Cohen, Naftali S. Cohn, William Cutter, Yaacob Dweck, Talya Fishman, Steven D. Fraade, Dalia-Ruth Halperin, Martha Himmelfarb, Marc Hirshman, Tamar Kadari, Israel Knohl, Susanne Klingenstein, Katrin Kogman-Appel, Jon D. Levenson, Paul Mandel, Annett Martini, Jordan S. Penkower, Annette Yoshiko Reed, Jeffrey L. Rubenstein, Shalom Sabar, Raymond P. Scheindlin, Seth Schwartz, Sarit Shalev-Eyni, Moshe Simon-Shoshan, Peter Stallybrass, Josef Stern, Barry Scott Wimpfheimer, Elliot R. Wolfson, Azzan Yadin-Israel, and Joseph Yahalom.

Author : Ora Limor,Guy G. Stroumsa
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 3161464826

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Contra Iudaeos by Ora Limor,Guy G. Stroumsa Pdf

Author : Ryan Szpiech
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Abrahamic religions
ISBN : 0823266826

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Medieval Exegesis and Religious Difference by Ryan Szpiech Pdf

This collection of 13 essays explores the nature of medieval exegesis during the High and especially the Late Middle Ages (roughly from the 11th to the 15th centuries) as a discourse of cross-cultural and inter-religious conflict in all three traditions, paying particular attention to the exegetical production of scholars in the Western and Southern Mediterranean. It includes essays on medieval textual commentary from a number of perspectives, including Islamic-Christian relations, medieval Dominican intellectual culture, Jewish-Christian polemics and disputations, as well as a number of thematic chapters on the role of gender metaphors and gendered language in polemical and exegetical commentaries.

Author : David Engel,Lawrence H. Schiffman,Elliot R. Wolfson
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004222335

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Studies in Medieval Jewish Intellectual and Social History by David Engel,Lawrence H. Schiffman,Elliot R. Wolfson Pdf

Thirteen leading scholars offer a fresh look at four key topics in medieval Jewish studies: the history of Jewish communities in Western Christendom, Jewish-Christian interactions in medieval Europe, medieval Jewish Biblical exegesis and religious literature, and historical representations of medieval Jewry.

Author : Mercedes García-Arenal,Gerard Wiegers
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780271082998

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Polemical Encounters by Mercedes García-Arenal,Gerard Wiegers Pdf

This collection takes a new approach to understanding religious plurality in the Iberian Peninsula and its Mediterranean and northern European contexts. Focusing on polemics—works that attack or refute the beliefs of religious Others—this volume aims to challenge the problematic characterization of Iberian Jews, Muslims, and Christians as homogeneous groups. From the high Middle Ages to the end of the seventeenth century, Christian efforts to convert groups of Jews and Muslims, Muslim efforts to convert Christians and Jews, and the defensive efforts of these communities to keep their members within the faiths led to the production of numerous polemics. This volume brings together a wide variety of case studies that expose how the current historiographical focus on the three religious communities as allegedly homogeneous groups obscures the diversity within the Christian, Jewish, and Muslim communities as well as the growing ranks of skeptics and outright unbelievers. Featuring contributions from a range of academic disciplines, this paradigm-shifting book sheds new light on the cultural and intellectual dynamics of the conflicts that marked relations among these religious communities in the Iberian Peninsula and beyond. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Antoni Biosca i Bas, Thomas E. Burman, Mònica Colominas Aparicio, John Dagenais, Óscar de la Cruz, Borja Franco Llopis, Linda G. Jones, Daniel J. Lasker, Davide Scotto, Teresa Soto, Ryan Szpiech, Pieter Sjoerd van Koningsveld, and Carsten Wilke.

Author : Daniel J. Lasker
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2007-04-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786949851

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Jewish Philosophical Polemics Against Christianity in the Middle Ages: With a New Introduction by Daniel J. Lasker Pdf

This meticulously researched study is based on a comprehensive reading of all the major Jewish sources from the Geonic period in the ninth century until the dawn of the Haskalah in the late eighteenth century. Its clearly written and carefully documented exposition of the philosophical arguments used by Jews to refute four central doctrines of Christianity (trinity, incarnation, transubstantiation, and virgin birth) makes a major contribution to a relatively neglected area of medieval Jewish intellectual history.

Author : Frank Talmage,Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
Publisher : PIMS
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0888448147

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Apples of Gold in Settings of Silver by Frank Talmage,Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies Pdf

Author : Miriam Goldstein
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783161618864

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A Judeo-Arabic Parody of the Life of Jesus by Miriam Goldstein Pdf

Author : Daniel Frank,Matt Goldish
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 0814332374

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Rabbinic Culture and Its Critics by Daniel Frank,Matt Goldish Pdf

Examines dissent from rabbinic Judaism in the Middle Ages and Early Modern period to consider it as a category within the history and culture of the Jewish people. The influential leaders, institutions, and texts that make up rabbinic culture have held a central place in Judaism since the Middle Ages and have given Jewish cultures across the world remarkably uniform systems of law and doctrines into the modern period. Even so, dissent from mainstream rabbinic culture always existed, prompted by matters such as textual interpretation, differences of authority, and definitions of spirituality. Rabbinic Culture and Its Critics exposes some of the views of these often-overlooked critics, sectarians, and so-called heretics as an important historical category in Jewish culture. The book covers a wide span of time, from the days of the Babylonian Geonim, who first championed the Talmud in the early Middle Ages, to the period of the Maskilim, who promoted the Jewish Enlightenment in Europe during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In their introductory essay, Daniel Frank and Matt Goldish define Rabbinic culture and survey the various types of critiques leveled against it. Subsequent essays consider different forms of dissent in detail, including the Andalusian tradition of belletristic satire, Moses Maimonides' critical views of contemporary Jewish beliefs and practices, Karaite-Rabbanite polemics, the ambivalence toward rabbinic teachings among the communities of the Western Sephardi Diaspora, and the messianic movement surrounding Shabbatai Zvi. The essays in Rabbinic Culture and Its Critics offer a fresh, interdisciplinary perspective on Jewish dissent within a traditional society that cuts across temporal, geographical, and phenomenological boundaries. The volume will provide informative reading for scholars of Jewish studies and anyone with an interest in religious history.

Author : Carol Bakhos,Gerhard Langer
Publisher : SBL Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781628374728

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The Jewish Middle Ages by Carol Bakhos,Gerhard Langer Pdf

For many, the Middle Ages in general evokes a sense of the sinister and brings to mind a world of fear, superstition, and religious fanaticism. For Jews it was a period marked by persecutions, pogroms, and expulsions. Yet at the same time, the Middle Ages was also a time of lively cultural exchange and heightened creativity for Jews. In The Jewish Middle Ages, contributors explore the ways in which the stories of biblical women, including, Eve, Sarah, Hagar, Rebekah, Zipporah, Ruth, Esther, and Judith, make their way into the rich tapestry of medieval Jewish literature, mystical texts, and art, particularly in works emanating from Ashkenazic circles. Contributors include Carol Bakhos, Judith R. Baskin, Elisheva Baumgarten, Dagmar Börner-Klein, Constanza Cordoni, Rachel Elior, Meret Gutmann-Grün, Robert A. Harris, Yuval Katz-Wilfing, Sheila Tuller Keiter, Katrin Kogman-Appel, Gerhard Langer, Aurora Salvatierra Ossorio, and Felicia Waldman. These essays give us a glimpse into the role women played and the authority they assumed in medieval Jewish culture beyond the rabbinic centers of Palestine and Babylonia.