Rabbinic Parodies of Jewish and Christian Literature
Title | Rabbinic Parodies of Jewish and Christian Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Holger M. Zellentin |
Publisher | Mohr Siebeck |
Pages | 300 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Christian literature, Early |
ISBN | 9783161506475 |
Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph.D. - Princeton) under the title: Late Antiquity Upside Down: Rabbinic Parodies of Jewish and Christian Literature.
Late Antiquity Upside-down Rabbinic Parodies of Jewish and Christian Literature
Title | Late Antiquity Upside-down Rabbinic Parodies of Jewish and Christian Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Holger M. Zellentin |
Publisher | |
Pages | 289 |
Release | 2007 |
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Mystical Resistance
Title | Mystical Resistance PDF eBook |
Author | Ellen D. Haskell |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 257 |
Release | 2016-07-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0190600446 |
The thirteenth-century Jewish mystical classic Sefer ha-Zohar (The Book of Splendor), commonly known as the Zohar, took shape against a backdrop of rising anti-Judaism in Spain. Mystical Resistance reveals that in addition to the Zohar's role as a theological masterpiece, its kabbalistic teachings offer passionate and knowledgeable critiques of Christian majority culture. During the Zohar's development, Christian friars implemented new missionizing strategies, forced Jewish attendance at religious disputations, and seized and censored Jewish books. In response, the kabbalists who composed the Zohar crafted strategically subversive narratives aimed at diminishing Christian authority. Hidden between the lines of its fascinating stories, the Zohar makes daring assertions that challenge themes important to medieval Christianity, including Christ's Passion and ascension, the mendicant friars' new missionizing strategies, and Gothic art's claims of Christian dominion. These assertions rely on an intimate and complex knowledge of Christianity gleaned from rabbinic sources, polemic literature, public Church art, and encounters between Christians and Jews. Much of the kabbalists' subversive discourse reflects language employed by writers under oppressive political regimes, treading a delicate line between public and private, power and powerlessness, subservience and defiance. By placing the Zohar in its thirteenth-century context, Haskell opens this text as a rich and fruitful source of Jewish cultural testimony produced at the epicenter of sweeping changes in the relationship between medieval Western Europe's Christian majority and its Jewish minority.
Heresy and Identity in Late Antiquity
Title | Heresy and Identity in Late Antiquity PDF eBook |
Author | Eduard Iricinschi |
Publisher | Mohr Siebeck |
Pages | 428 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9783161491221 |
"The papers collected in this volume shift the focus away from "heretics" and "heresy" to heresiological discourse, by contextualizing the late antique Jewish and Christian groups that produced our extant literature. The contributors to the volume draw from multiple literary corpora and genres, bringing a variety of late antique perspective to explore the discursive construction of the Other. They unravel ethnic identities, and re-create the multiple voices textured in the dialogue between the "orthodox" and "heretical" writers."--BOOK JACKET.
Early Christian Monastic Literature and the Babylonian Talmud
Title | Early Christian Monastic Literature and the Babylonian Talmud PDF eBook |
Author | Michal Bar-Asher Siegal |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 245 |
Release | 2013-12-23 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1107023017 |
This book examines literary analogies in Christian and Jewish sources, culminating in an in-depth analysis of connections between Christian monastic texts and Babylonian Talmudic traditions.
Jews and Humor
Title | Jews and Humor PDF eBook |
Author | Leonard J. Greenspoon |
Publisher | Purdue University Press |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2011-10-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1612491553 |
Jews and humor is, for most people, a natural and felicitous collocation. In spite of, or perhaps because of, a history of crises and living on the edge, Jews have often created or resorted to humor. But what is humor? And what makes certain types, instances, or performances of humor "Jewish"? These are among the myriad queries addressed by the fourteen authors whose essays are collected in this volume. And, thankfully, their observations, always apt and often witty, are expressed with a lightness of style and a depth of analysis that are appropriate to the many topics they cover. The scholars who contributed to this collection allow readers both to discern the common features that make up "Jewish humor" and to delight in the individualism and eccentricities of the many figures whose lives and accomplishments are narrated here. Because these essays are written in a clear, jargon-free style, they will appeal to everyone—even those who don't usually crack a smile!
Antiquity in Antiquity
Title | Antiquity in Antiquity PDF eBook |
Author | Gregg Gardner |
Publisher | Mohr Siebeck |
Pages | 494 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9783161494116 |
Leading scholars in early Christianity, Judaic studies, classics, history and archaeology explore the ways that memories were retrieved, reconstituted and put to use by Jews, Christians and their pagan neighbours in late antiquity, from the third century B.C.E. to the seventh century C.E.