Medieval Exegesis and Religious Difference : : Commentary, Conflict, and Community in the Premodern Mediterranean /

Medieval Exegesis and Religious Difference : : Commentary, Conflict, and Community in the Premodern Mediterranean / / ed. by Ryan Szpiech.

Jews, Christians, and Muslims all have a common belief in the sanctity of a core holy scripture, and commentary on scripture (exegesis) was at the heart of all three traditions in the Middle Ages. At the same time, because it dealt with issues such as the nature of the canon, the limits of acceptabl...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
MitwirkendeR:
Alfonso, Esperanza,
Biosca i Bas, Antoni,
Burman, Thomas E.,
Caputo, Nina,
Cuffel, Alexandra,
Griffith, Sidney,
Hames, Harvey J.,
Kruger, Steven F.,
Ragacs, Ursula,
Saleh, Walid,
Stroumsa, Sarah,
Szpiech, Ryan,
Sáenz-Badillos, Ángel,
Yisraeli, Yosi,
HerausgeberIn:
Szpiech, Ryan,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Bordering Religions: Concepts, Conflicts, and Conversations
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Physical Description:1 online resource (352 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on Transliteration and References
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Strategies of Reading on the Borders of Islam
  • 1 The Father of Many Nations: Abraham in al- Andalus
  • 2 Ibn al- Maḥrūmah's Notes on Ibn Kammūnah's Examination of the Three Religions: The Issue of the Abrogation of Mosaic Law
  • 3 Al- Biqāʿī Seen through Reuchlin: Reflections on the Islamic Relationship with the Bible
  • Part II. Dominicans and Their Disputations
  • 4 Two Dominicans, a Lost Manuscript, and Medieval Christian Thought on Islam
  • 5 The Anti- Muslim Discourse of Alfonso Buenhombre
  • 6 Reconstructing Medieval Jewish- Christian Disputations
  • Part III. Authority and Scripture between Jewish and Christian Readers
  • 7 Reconstructing Thirteenth- Century Jewish- Christian Polemic: From Paris 1240 to Barcelona 1263 and Back Again
  • 8 A Christianized Sephardic Critique of Rashi's Peshaṭ in Pablo de Santa María's Additiones ad Postillam Nicolai de Lyra
  • 9 Jewish and Christian Interpretations in Arragel's Biblical Glosses
  • Part IV. Exegesis and Gender: Vocabularies of Difference
  • 10 Between Epic Entertainment and Polemical Exegesis: Jesus as Antihero in Toledot Yeshu
  • 11 Sons of God, Daughters of Man, and the Formation of Human Society in Nahmanides's Exegesis
  • 12 Late Medieval Readings of the Strange Woman in Proverbs
  • 13 Exegesis as Autobiography: The Case of Guillaume de Bourges
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • List of Contributors
  • Index

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